Update Roads reopen, but still slick as cold continues

<p>Calistoga Road and all the other area routes closed early Tuesday due to ice and snow are now open to traffic.</p><p>Officers had closed Calistoga Road during the night because of ice for two hours.</p><p>Tuesday at about 7 a.m., the road again was being closed on the Napa County and Sonoma County ends. Officers also closed Porter Creek Road and Mark West Springs Road, the CHP said.</p><p>They were all reopened by about 9:20 a.m.</p><p>Despite the closures, at 8:16 a.m., a vehicle overturned on Calistoga Road near Petrified Forest Road, trapping its occupants. The CHP said, however, that injuries were minor.</p><p>There was also a report of an unoccupied vehicle going over the side of Highway 1 at Willow Creek Road 8 a.m., but CHP didn’t have any information immediately available.</p><p>Snow fell overnight along some upper elevations of the North Bay and ice was prevalent. Snow was reported in Angwin and over Mt. St. Helena.</p><p>Numerous minor crashes were reported and one fatality remained under investigation in Schellville Tuesday morning. That crash closed Highway 116 at Highway 121 at about 5:15 a.m. and it remained closed until about 8 a.m.</p><p>Late Monday night, black ice on Calistoga Road had caused three minor crashes, CHP Sgt. Robert Mota said. “We closed Calistoga Road just before midnight until about 2 a.m. due to ice and it was snowing a little bit up there,” Mota said. “We closed our end and Napa closed their end.”</p><p>Once the road was sanded it was reopened.</p><p>“We had that saving warm rain that came in around 3 o’clock or we really would have been out of business,” said CHP Sgt. Mack Lewis, who worked the graveyard shift.</p><p>But by about 7 a.m., with temperatures dropped into the low 30s, ice was reported reforming on Calistoga and other upper level roads.</p><p>With a forecast calling for more of the same in the next few mornings, Mota warned drivers to expect those northern routes into Napa County to all be dangerous, including Mark West Springs Road, Calistoga and St. Helena Road.</p><p>In Mendocino County early Tuesday ice also was a problem, but not leading to as many crashes as Monday morning when snow was falling, the CHP said.</p><p>Wet roadways and fog was causing a variety of minor crashes in the state forestry jurisdiction including Lake and Napa counties, but nothing major was reported.</p>