SNOQUALMIE PASS, Wash. —
All the lanes of Interstate 90 were closed for about four hours Sunday at Snoqualmie Pass after heavy snow and hail iced the roads, causing a series of collisions.
It was the first heavy snow of the season, and the first snow-related road closure this fall.
The State Patrol ordered the closure in both directions at 3:30 p.m. The state Department of Transportation reports more than a dozen cars were stranded sideways, in the ditch or on the median.
At 8 p.m. -- after agency trucks were dispatched from the Seattle area carrying chemicals to melt roadway ice -- the WSDOT reported one lane open in each direction.
By 8:45 p.m., all lanes were open in both directions.
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