ANCHORAGE — A spring snowfall has broken the nearly 60-year-old seasonal snow record of Alaska's largest city.
Inundated with nearly double the snow they're used to, Anchorage residents have been expecting to see this season's snowfall surpass the record of 132.6 inches in the winter of 1954-55.
The 3.4 inches that fell by Saturday afternoon brought the total to 133.6 inches, and another 0.9 inches accumulated by 7 p.m., the Anchorage Daily News reported. That put the season's snowfall total at 134.5 inches — more than 11 feet.
Before a dumping of wet snow Friday, none had fallen since mid-March, and the seasonal measure hovered at 129.4 inches. The halt gave residents a chance to clear their snow-laden roofs and city crews an opportunity to widen streets squeezed by mountains of snow.
At the height of the snow overload, many residential streets were rimmed by snow-walled canyons that towered over fences and shielded homes. Some roofs collapsed.
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