Following snow, sleet and ice that arrived in the Big Bend and South Georgia Tuesday due to a winter storm, a large stretch of a major highway shut down Wednesday evening.
Following snow, sleet and ice that arrived in the Big Bend and South Georgia Tuesday due to a winter storm, a large stretch of a major highway shut down Wednesday evening.
Interstate 10 is back open.Florida Department of Transportation has open the roadway from the alabama state line to mile marker 142 -- near marianna, florida.He
Interstate 10 in the Baton Rouge metro area reopened to both eastbound and westbound traffic Thursday afternoon, the Department of Transportation and Development announced.
Interstate 10 from the Louisiana-Texas state line to as far east as Sorrento or Gramercy could be fully open to traffic in both directions at some point Thursday afternoon, Department of Transportation and Development Secretary Joe Donahue said.
Frozen temperatures created an icy mess overnight in Northwest Florida, but as the sun rose Thursday some roads and bridges began to reopen.
Trucker Alexis Barnett was trying to make the trip Wednesday from Destin to Sarasota when Florida shut down I-10 and re-routed traffic onto Highway 90. That’s when the driving started getting treacherous. “Going up the hills and down the hills, it was nothing but black ice. Just a sheet of ice,” she said.
A 200-mile stretch of interstate-10 through the Panhandle that was closed for most of the day has completely reopened. The Department of Transportation reopened
Forecasters said it was too early to tell whether the ice and snow would approach or beat Tallahassee’s all-time snowfall record of 2.8 inches set in 1958.
Per Florida Highway Patrol, I-10 from mile marker 5 to mile marker 56 is CLOSED. The Barrancas Avenue Bayou Chico Bridge was closed in both directions at 4:58 p.m. because of ice, according the Florida Department of Transportation.
PHOENIX — The westbound lanes of Interstate 10 from Chandler to central Phoenix will be closed this weekend due to a traffic shift. The Arizona Department of Transportation said the closure will take place between the Loop 202 freeway to Interstate 17. The closure starts at 10 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, and ends at 4 a.m. Monday, Jan. 27.
Interstate 10 heading into downtown Phoenix from the West Valley was closed briefly after a crash Wednesday morning.