Students in Pueblo enjoy three snow days this week

Students in Pueblo enjoyed three days off from school this week as snow hit the Steel City.

Rick Gonzales spent Friday afternoon sledding down a field behind East High School with his son, Justin.

KRDO NewsChannel 13 asked Gonzales who was enjoying the snow days more: him or his son? “I think he is. I’ve had to work some of them,” Gonzales said with a laugh.

“I know one that’s happy about it,” said Lisa Medved, whose 6-year-old daughter, Abigail, was building a snow fort outside her home on the north side.

“They’re fun to be off of school and not have to do work all the time,” Abigail Medved said.

But some drivers are sick and tired of driving on slushy, snow-packed roads.

“I would think that this would be on a plow route, and nothing has been plowed,” said Fred Dubbel, referring to a stretch of North Elizabeth Street, that runs in front of a shopping center.

“I would think this is a feeder road, and it’s feeding traffic into one of the largest shopping centers on the north side, so I’d have a hard time thinking that this was not on a sand or even on a plow route,” Dubbel said.

City spokeswoman Debra Hill said the city doesn’t have the money to plow side streets. Only major thoroughfares get treated.

But Lisa Medved said she doesn’t have a problem with the city’s decision.

“It seems like the snow in Pueblo just comes and goes so quickly that we’re just used to driving slow,” she said.

“I think there should be more done on the residential areas, definitely,” Gonzales said.

District 60 and 70 officials said that despite the snow days this week, both districts have enough snow days built into the school calendar so students won’t have to make up the days later this year.