BOULDER, Colo. — Several employees of the $720 million Elevations Credit Union spent eight harrowing hours stuck in their vehicles during the back-to-back snowstorms that crippled large portions of Colorado during the holidays.

"Everyone got home safe but we did have employees who were trapped in traffic as they tried to commute to their homes in Denver," said Sue Bailhache, manager of community/public relations describing the CU's ordeal as it, like other Denver area CUs, coped with the storms that closed Elevations and several other CUs over several days.

The $720 million Elevations, with six branches in Boulder County, reopened last Friday after being closed for two-and-a-half days after the first storm began.

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