TELLER COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — What started as rain and wet roads on US 24 through Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs in El Paso County, turned to blizzard-like conditions southwest of Woodland Park in Teller County.
Roads quickly became slushy, then icy as wind-blown snow moved through the area late Tuesday morning and continued through the afternoon.
The dividing line between steady rain and steady snow was at an elevation of around 9,000 feet.
Brad Shaw, operations supervisor for Teller County Public Works, said that he was expecting up to a foot of snow by Wednesday morning, although there was considerable melting of snow that had already fallen.
“We’ll have 18 plows on duty through the day and four overnight, he explained.
Shaw said that he was worried about plows damaging some of the county’s 480 miles of gravel roads…