{"id":40952,"date":"2020-02-03T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.skyhinews.com\/?p=62982"},"modified":"2020-02-03T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T23:23:51","slug":"wrecks-mount-as-snowstorm-makes-travel-hazardous-across-grand-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/wrecks-mount-as-snowstorm-makes-travel-hazardous-across-grand-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrecks mount as snowstorm makes travel hazardous across Grand County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s snowstorm is making travel across Grand County tricky with reports of slide-offs and car wrecks becoming more and more widespread.<\/p>\n<p>At 3:30 p.m., Grand Fire had its crews working a wreck with injuries on US Highway 40 at Red Dirt Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities were telling drivers on the highway between Tabernash and Granby to expect delays with alternating lanes of traffic. Both lanes reopened around 4:10 p.m. There was no word yet the severity of the injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Based on emergency radio traffic, there have a number of other minor wrecks and slide-offs reported to Grand County dispatchers since snow started falling.<\/p>\n<p>A winter storm warning predicted snowfall ranging from 6-14 inches on areas including Rabbit Ears Pass, Rocky Mountain National Park, Berthoud Pass and Winter Park with high wind gusts making travel extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>The snow is expected to continue into Tuesday morning, though the heaviest should subside sometime this evening.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-facebook wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-facebook\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><script async=\"1\" defer=\"1\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&amp;version=v6.0\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrandCountyOEM\/posts\/3043363039016952\" data-width=\"500\">\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrandCountyOEM\/posts\/3043363039016952\" class=\"fb-xfbml-parse-ignore\">\n<p>&#8211;WINTER STORM WARNING in effect from noon Monday to 6 am Tuesday for Winter Park, Berthoud Pass and other areas of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrandCountyOEM\/\">Grand County Office of Emergency Management<\/a> on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrandCountyOEM\/posts\/3043363039016952\">Sunday, February 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s snowstorm is making travel across Grand County tricky with reports of slide-offs and car wrecks becoming more and more widespread. At 3:30 p.m., Grand Fire had its crews working a wreck with injuries on US Highway 40 at Red Dirt Hill. Authorities were telling drivers on the highway between Tabernash and Granby to expect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-10 05:11:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}