By Marshall Zelinger
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TELLER COUNTY - *Cripple Creek-Victor School District is closed Thursday.

Steady snow in Woodland Park, Divide and most of Teller County will have snow plow crews working the main roads and bus routes before your residential streets get touched.  The Colorado Department of Transportation is responsible for Highway 24.  Woodland Park has an on-call plow for main routes overnight.  After 4 a.m., seven plows will be on Woodland Park roads.  Teller County has five plows working through 4 a.m.  Before the morning commute, there will be 18 plows laying a salt-sand mix on Teller County main routes and bus routes.

"This one is slick.  Pretty much, it just hasn't let up, it's all day," said Teller County Public Works Operations Supervisor Brad Shaw Wednesday evening.  "We'll have the anti-skid on the main roads for the morning commute, I think they'll be fine."

The anti-skid is a mix of salt and sand.  Many roads in Teller County needed anti-skid, as they were snow-packed and icy underneath.  With snow still coming down Wednesday night, the roads will be especially tricky early Thursday morning, since the number of plows actively on the roads shrunk considerably.

"Our crew will be getting rest, so that starting (Thursday) morning at four o'clock, before people get up to school and work, they're out plowing the roads," said Woodland Park Public Works Director Bill Alspach.  "Our priority is to the primary and secondary roads, making them safe for folks to get to work and to school."

That means many of your residential and side streets may be difficult to navigate, regardless of the condition of the main roads.

"When it's snowing like this, it doesn't make sense to go to their road if they're saying ‘it's my road why, doesn't it get plowed?'  If it lets up, we are going to break off into the cul-de-sac roads, try to get everybody home," said Shaw.  "We do the best we can, we just can't be on every road at once."

"I think they should do both streets," said 14-year-old Woodland Park resident Max Strelec.  "I think more people travel the side streets to get to their house and they go into the ditches and stuff."

We found Max shoveling his porch and trampoline to keep it from ripping, even though he wouldn't mind waking up to another pile.

"More snow, so I don't have school," said Max.