Hello, Snow Again

Snow is the major topic around southcentral Alaska, this week. Everyone's in record territory.

We got a couple more inches overnight, which breaks the 2003-2004 record & moves us into the 3rd heaviest snowfall. It's still snowing this morning, with the weatherman saying 2" to 4" more today. Another couple of inches tomorrow, they say, and then 4" to 8" more over the weekend. That record's getting awfully close.

What I remember about break-up (y'all would call it "spring") in 2004 was the week or 10 days of flooded parking lots, intersections under water - and all of the water black with cinder & ash. Every vehicle in this part of the state was the same color, and folks had to traverse parking lots by walking on the tops of curb stops or medians. Stores here nearly ran out of "break up boots": knee-high rubber boots which are worn during the thaw, in self-defense.


Work is rearing its ugly head again, so I'd best go out & brush snow off of the cars, and get going.

UPDATE: the snow is heavy enough that the blowing and drifting conditions on the highway have traffic at a (relative) crawl, with speeds varying from 35 to 60, depending on how much traffic is ahead.  Visibility is even bad on the side roads. I feel sorry for those in passenger cars; it has to be much worse for those who aren't sitting up high in SUVs.