CDOT closes, quickly reopens I-70 in Glenwood Canyon after flash flood threat

The Colorado Department of Transportation closed Interstate 70 done Glenwood Canyon again Sunday day for astir fractional an hr astatine 5 p.m. due to the fact that of a flash flood threat.

Radar showed a fewer showers and storms successful the country but the National Weather Service had not issued a flash flood advisory oregon informing for the country arsenic of 5:15 p.m.

CDOT past lifted the closure astatine 5:25 p.m.

#I70 eastbound/westbound: Safety closure lifted betwixt Exit 87 – US 6; Rifle and Exit 133 – Dotsero. Glenwood Canyon has reopened successful some directions https://t.co/Z8ysn5QGP7

— Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) (@ColoradoDOT) August 15, 2021

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