Snow blinds drivers in east El Paso County after winter storm

Northeast of Colorado Springs, all one could see is snow and the cars it took as its victims.

Cliff Goodnight helped pull after seeing someone run off the road.

“So what you’ve got to do is help folks out! So we pulled over hooked it up and yanked it out,” Goodnight said.

For most of the morning, Highway 24 near Falcon was closed, forcing people to turn around or wait it out.

Brian Winchill, who works overnight as a security guard, had just clocked out of work. He waited in a parking lot until the highway reopened.

What kept so many drivers at home wasn’t the snow already on the ground, but the wind blowing it across, especially on Judge Orr Road.

A driver with his own personal plow said he tried driving down but didn’t make it very far.

“I made it a mile down Judge Orr and they got SnoCats down there pulling people out,” he said.

El Paso County plows worked to clear the roads, but cleaning neighborhood streets didn’t come very easy.

Heather Walden, a mother shoveling her driveway, knows that all too well. She said, “the drift was crazy. Couldn’t get out of my driveway, I wouldn’t have been able to make it to work this morning.”

Streets in Falcon started to clear significantly by the afternoon, but some roads remain snow-packed.