Winter Storm Warning: Up to 30 Inches of Snow Closes 200 Miles of I-80 Overnight

Marianne Nelson left her Rawlins home at 5:15 a.m. Monday for what should have been a 10-minute drive to her job at the Wyoming State Penitentiary. By 11 a.m. she had been stuck on Interstate 80 for nearly six hours.”I’ve got three semitrucks parked in front of me,” Nelson told Cowboy State Daily. “I guess there’s a tow truck somewhere, but he’s stuck, too. I can’t see anything, and I only have a quarter of a tank of gas.”Nelson’s morning was the lived experience of what the Wyoming Department of Transportation map showed at the same hour: more than 200 miles of I-80 closed across southern Wyoming, from Rock Springs east to Cheyenne. By late Monday evening WYDOT estimated reopening between 6 and 8 a.m. MDT Tuesday for the Rawlins-to-Lar …