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Updated: 5:31 a.m. Monday, Oct. 30, 2006 | Posted: 5:55 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, 2006

Snowy Day For Commuters On Snoqualmie Pass

I-90 Shut Down For A Time After Snow and Collisions



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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