OMAHA (AP) — Snow and rain continued to fall on portions of Nebraska today, prompting the closure of another section of Interstate 80.
Mary Jo Hall, a spokeswoman for the Department of Roads, said I-80 was closed from North Platte west to Wyoming about 8:30 a.m., extending the closure nearly 80 miles east from Big Springs.
Officials closed the 100-mile I-80 stretch from Big Springs to Wyoming Wednesday morning.
In Wyoming, I-80 was closed from the border west to Cheyenne.
Hall said stranded travelers had filled hotels and other accommodations at Ogallala, prompting the extra closure.
A two-mile stretch of Interstate 76 in Nebraska, running from the I-80 junction to the Colorado state line, also was closed. Colorado already had closed its portion of the highway.
The road were icy and snow-packed throughout the North Platte area, and officials did not expect any roads opening before noon, Hall said.
“It’s a mess out there,” she said.
In Cherry County to the north, maintenance crews continued to battle falling snow today.
Nicole Dunbar of the Cherry County Sheriff’s Office said road crews were having problems because snow continues to fall on the layer of ice coating the roads.
“It’s still snowing, and roads are very icy,” she said.
By this morning, 6 to 8 inches of snow had fallen there, Dunbar said.
No roads had been closed, but driving was treacherous.
The Sheriff’s Office reported two weather-related accidents in the county Thursday morning, with a number of other vehicles sliding off the road.
Snow and freezing rain blanketed much of western and central Nebraska Wednesday.
Melissa Goering, a forecaster for the National Weather Service in Cheyenne, Wyo., which keeps a weather watch over Nebraska’s Panhandle, said the Panhandle blizzard warning and other advisories likely will be canceled by 11 a.m. MST.
“The low is located over western Kansas and it’ll slowly move east,” she said.
Meteorologist Corey King, based at the service’s Hastings station, said the worst of the storm Thursday was hitting North Platte.
Frank Carland, the street supervisor in North Platte, said the snow stopped falling there Thursday morning.
The area was white and slick with 8 inches of snow and 1 1/2 inches of ice from Wednesday’s freezing rain, he said.
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