Driving on winter roads can be a dangerous affair, especially in the mountains.
When a winter storm in Denver strikes, driving conditions can deteriorate quickly — which is why the majority of Denver-area school districts have instituted late starts for today, December 3.
Such dangers are magnified in the Colorado high country, where snow falls more odten and weather can truly become a life-or-death situation. Yet anyone who’s traveled through the mountains in our state has seen drivers — perhaps recent transplants or maybe homegrown morons — who either don’t understand the risks they’re taking or are simply oblivious to the possibility of doing a Thelma and Louise off a cliff and taking you with them…