One of the unique phenomena during the Colorado blizzard Wednesday was something we’ll dub the “case of the disappearing traffic lights.”
It wasn’t that the lights in question were out, necessarily. It was just impossible to see them because they had been coated with a heavy layer of blowing snow from a storm that meteorologists said can be considered historic. And even 24 hours later, it was difficult to see the lights through the snow. So, firefighters had to step in and do something unique.
That’s right: It literally took a high-pressure fire hose to get the ice off some traffic lights.
The “case of the disappearing traffic lights” was perhaps one of the most benign problems from Wednesday’s storm, which began with what’s known as a “bomb cyclone.”