{"id":458668,"date":"2025-12-19T22:23:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458668\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:23:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:23:12","slug":"hurricane-force-winds-close-roads-in-boulder-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/458668\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane-force winds close roads in Boulder County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Boulder County roads are closed on Friday following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/12\/19\/weather-boulder-county-wind-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">high risk of wildfire spread and hurricane-force winds<\/a> blowing across the county, and officials are telling people to stay off the roads.\n<\/p>\n<p>Stay home and do not drive unless absolutely necessary, the Boulder Office of Disaster Management said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BoulderOEM\/status\/2002026353944859055?s=20\">social media post<\/a>. Debris, tree limbs and power lines will be on the roads and will pose a threat to anyone driving, the post states.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone must drive today, the disaster management agency asks that people drive extra slowly, account for more time to get where they\u2019re going, and treat all powerless stoplights as four-way stops, the post states.<\/p>\n<p>The following roads are closed:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 U.S. 36 is closed in both directions between Boulder and Lyons, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.cotrip.org\/@-105.26527,40.21016,13?show=winterDriving,roadReports,plowLocations,weatherRadar,weatherWarnings,chainLaws\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Colorado Department of Transportation\u2019s COtrip map<\/a> that tracks road closures.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Colorado 93 is closed in both directions from Marshall Road in Boulder County to 68th Avenue in Jefferson County, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ColoradoDOT\/status\/2002051483068690834\">transportation department social media post<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Colorado 128 is closed in both directions between Colorado 93 in Boulder County and Eldorado Boulevard in Superior, according to COtrip.org, CDOT\u2019s online trip planning map.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Flagstaff Road in Boulder County. Residents can still access the road, but no one else, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BoulderOEM\/status\/2002045999884169465\">Boulder Office of Disaster Management social media post<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Colorado 72 is closed in both directions between Ward and Colorado 7, according to COtrip.org, CDOT\u2019s online trip planning map.<\/p>\n<p>Residents can use the Boulder Office of Disaster Management\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/e4a2796d128d45c38a8ce902462ade12#data_s=id%3AdataSource_3-EOC_Road_Closures_Public_View_6707%3A1543\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">online map<\/a> to track road closures in Boulder County.\n<\/p>\n<p>The unusually high temperatures and strong winds prompted Xcel Energy to proactively turn off power for some residents on Friday, the third day of the outage. About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailycamera.com\/2025\/12\/19\/power-out-xcel-wind-boulder-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">19,000 customers were without power<\/a> as the utility worked to combat the high risk of wildfire spread.\n<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some Boulder County roads are closed on Friday following the high risk of wildfire spread and hurricane-force winds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":458669,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[4437,4438,4439,9577,5295,746,4440,1370,728,50,159,314,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-458668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-boulder","9":"tag-boulder-county","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-news","12":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-front-range","15":"tag-latest-headlines","16":"tag-local-news","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-traffic","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115748575875102395","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}