Denver ? Many people got out of their neighborhoods Saturday for the first time since the region’s biggest snowstorm in 90 years dropped as much as 11 feet of snow, as crews worked to clear roads to others who were still stranded.

“More and more people are able to get out because the county roads have been plowed,” said Bill Barwick of the statewide Alpine Rescue Team, whose members were contacting stranded residents, often traveling by skis.

Faced with 31 inches of snow immobilizing his car, Dustin Allee uses a shovel to start the long process of digging out. Allee shoveled Saturday in southeast Denver, where a late-winter storm dumped a modern-day record snowfall this week.

The heavy snow continued taking a toll on buildings. Students using the Ritchie Center sports complex at the University of Denver were evacuated Saturday because a wall was threatened by heavy snow tumbling off a roof. A suburban Office Depot was evacuated because of fears the roof would collapse.

Hundreds of home and business roofs have collapsed since the storm, though none has caused serious injuries.

A snowplow reached the home of Yvette Morton and her husband and two children Saturday in a mountain canyon 12 miles northwest of Boulder.

“We are just getting ready to finally get out of here,” she said. “We’re ready to go to the store.”

The family hadn’t had electricity since the storm struck Tuesday, but they got through the week with a wood-burning stove and help from neighbors. “We have a good community here. We borrowed from each other,” said Morton.

The National Weather Service said 31.8 inches of snow accumulated in Denver, the heaviest snowfall since a December 1913 storm that dumped 47 1/2 inches of snow on the city over five days. Up to 11 feet fell west of Denver.