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Posted on 01/25/2007 8:18:14 AM PST by kellynla
Anchorage, Alaska - Anchorage has been hit with more than 74 inches of snow this season, and according to the city, it's reaching a crisis level, with snow removal on the streets becoming a big problem.
The roads are looking smaller these days around town, as two-lane roads are quickly becoming one. The city can plow the roads, but where it can remove the snow to another location is a problem.
It is a long, tiring day for Joyce Elliston.
"I've lived in Alaska since 1967 and I don't remember ever having this much snow before," Elliston said.
It's everywhere, covering her cars and her house. Digging out from 74 inches of snow is slow going for everyone.
"It's just a small street and with the added snow, I don't know where we're going to put it all," said Elliston.
That's a problem even the city faces. The city can plow it off the road, but then what? It's not legal to move the snow onto people's property, so it all starts piling up, leaving drivers with skinny streets.
"Makes it a lot more difficult to access houses," said fireman Jeff Hoke from Station 14
That's scary news for the Anchorage Fire Department.
"The rigs are hard to maneuver. Their big and with the added snow and already narrow streets, it makes it a lot more difficult for us," said Hoke.
The city is already $2 million over budget for snow removal this season, and says the situation is nearing crisis, with clearing crews working six day weeks.
And it won't be completely done until the white stuff turns into the wet stuff.
City officials says Anchorage has been hit with twice the amount of snow that typically falls during the winter, and the season is only half over potentially.
The city also says that only police can write tickets for illegally-parked cars due to snow accumulation, or for residents pushing snow into streets.
But community service operators have been working these past two weeks taking information about illegal snow removers and passing that information on to police, who can then either write a ticket or give a warning.
Global warming ping
Well, I read an article last week that said that even though the East coast enjoyed warm weather this fall and early winter, the rest of the world was experiencing one of the coldest winters.
HEY KATHY are you get this much snow???
Just repeat after me, "this is consistent with our models." (Of course, every kind of weather is.)
These same people will never believe that a tax cut will provide increased revenue.
The basis for new glaciers, the ice age is coming!
I just posted this article as a fun piece...
But you reeeeely don't buy into this "global warming" now do you...I mean the temps have been rising and falling for decades ever since we've been recording them. From the 1860's to the 1940's the temperatures were warmer while from the 1940's to the 1950's, they were colder...it's cyclical...nothing more, nothing less.
Colder than normal.
Go back and check November.
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The national weather service shows Anchorage mean temperature to be 10° colder than normal in November and 0.6° colder for the year.
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/climate/index.php?wfo=pafc
Snow is pretty when it first falls,but it sure gets ugly after laying around a while. I would think they could find a place top put it in a big State like that i know they used to dump it in the River here. Hauling it is expensive however.
Doesn't Anchorage get an average total of 70 inches of snow per year?
And aren't the top ten seasonal record total snowfalls well over 100 inches?
Whining wimps!
That's far less than, say, Buffalo, New York, or most of Michigan.
Send that picture to Algore to prove his charges of global warming! < /sarcasm>
Oh, yeah, if you want to change lanes or turn left you have to wait until spring... ;-)
Heck no! You think the weather's bad in Anchorage now, just wait until Al shows up!
-20 now, maybe 18" snow all winter, all still on the ground. Slightly colder and dryer than average. Global warming ended a decade ago.
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