This is why your drive to work yesterday was such a nightmare.
that the agency had erred. Typically, alarms don't go off unless a forecast calls for snow accumulation of between three-and-five inches, but in the future, he said,"We should issue an advisory just expecting those types of impacts to travel, especially during the morning commute."
In the meantime, local drivers did plenty of venting on social media."My favorite thing about Denver is that nobody can ever accurately predict the weather, so now we have 2 inches of snow on the ground when it wasn't even supposed to stick and none of the roads have been treated," one wrote. Another added,"My side of Denver was not prepared for snow 2 day. LMAO. Everybody just fish tailin', no treated roads, fuck it.
Even though CDOT was as surprised as anyone by the precipitation levels, Fowler insists that personnel pivoted quickly."We had adequate forces for the overnight hours, and we called in additional crews as the snow increased in the early morning hours Tuesday," Fowler says."With every snow event, including storms forecast for 0 to trace snowfall amounts, we have contingency plans in place to cover any increased snowfall that may occur.
Many drivers saw no evidence that CDOT had treated the highways, but Fowler says it happened:"Our plow operators apply deicer to the roads to prevent ice build-up regardless of whether or not there is enough snow to plow. In this case, we started applying the deicer when the snowfall rate started to pick up during the early morning hours. CDOT uses both liquid and solid deicers to help melt the ice once it has started to stick on the pavement.
Fowler acknowledges, however, that none of this was done before the first flakes fell."Pretreatment is storm-dependent," she notes."CDOT does not typically pretreat for this forecasted amount of snow, which was 0 to trace. But even if the conditions aren't right to pretreat or the forecast did not call for pretreatment, we are always treating the roadways during the storm with deicing materials.
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