COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – With another snowstorm set to sweep across the Pikes Peak Region on Tuesday overnight into Wednesday, Southern Colorado road crews say they’re ready.
As of Tuesday night, the 11 Alert Weather team is forecasting the following snow totals for communities across Southern Colorado:
Colorado Springs: 3-6 inchesMonument: 5-8 inchesWoodland Park: 5-8 inchesFountain: 2-4 inchesCripple Creek: 6-10 inchesFalcon: 3-6 inches
Corey Farkas, Colorado Springs Public Works Operations and Maintenance Division Manager, said his crews spent Tuesday on what they call a stop day.
“We go back through all of our trucks, make sure everything is fueled, cleaned. We download materials that we need to prior to any storm coming in, and we can always load materials back onto our vehicles,” he said. “All of our folks are ready. Our equipment is ready to go.”
According to El Paso County officials, their road crews pretreated roughly 300 miles of their busiest roads on Tuesday. They said they also scheduled their first shift to report at midnight, provided rest time, and will keep at it until the roads are clear.
The first flakes of snow began falling in Colorado Springs around 7:00 p.m. outside the 11 News Studio:
Farkas said they’re not just worried about how much snow is set to fall but how fast it will come down.
“We’ve been hearing anywhere from half an inch to an inch of snowfall per hour for the rate of snowfall,” he said.
Farkas said their snow plan is broken up into primary and secondary roadways. He said primary roadways include the largest and busiest streets in the city, such as Woodman, Union, and Academy Boulevard.
He said plows will not get onto secondary roadways until primary roadways are clear and safe, something that could impact schools.
“Most of our schools sit on secondary roadways,” he said. “There’s a pretty good chance that schools may close down because we’re not hitting those secondaries yet.”
For those who need to get out on the road in the snow, Colorado Springs Police Department Public Relations Manager Ira Cronin said there are a couple of ways to stay safe.
“Winter driving isn’t anything to be afraid of, but the problem is when people approach driving in winter conditions like it’s any other day, and that really is when people get themselves into trouble,” he said.
Cronin said during the last snow event, which dropped snow across Southern Colorado on Sunday, CSPD got 180 calls for service for accidents on Sunday and Monday.
“We can’t say they were all attributed to the weather, but it’s a pretty good guess that a good amount of them were,” he said.
Cronin said drivers need to be patient, go slowly, and give themselves plenty of stopping distance.
“It’s not getting going that’s a problem, it’s always the stopping,” he said. “Whether you’re in a two-wheel drive, a front-wheel drive or a four-wheel drive vehicle, stopping is an issue.”
Farkas said drivers need to give plows plenty of space, but said it’s even more helpful for people to stay home.
“It makes it very difficult for us to do our job, clearing snow and treating the pavement, when we’re stuck in traffic,” he said. “The less vehicles that we have on the road, the more we can do our job.”
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