NCEM officials have stated that Oregon Trail Road is currently impassable due to snow drifts, and they asked that motorists avoid using Oregon Trail Road as a detour.
The Cheyenne Office of the National Weather Service is warning residents of southeast Wyoming and the Nebraska Panhandle to brace for brutally cold temperatures, bitter cold wind chills.
Gayle Russel lives right right off I-25, near the Bordeaux exit at mile marker 77. She took some photos of what the Bordeaux underpass looked like this afternoon and it did not look pretty (well, it did look pretty, but it didn't look safe).
We will begin to see a prolonged period of moderate to heavy snowfall for the Snowy and Sierra Madres Ranges where 1 to 2 feet of snow accumulation will be possible.