April 26, 2008
spring has been cancelled
not surprisingly, yesterday's surprise blizzard set a record for snowfall on that date. in fact, we got more than a foot more snow than the previous record for april 25, which was less than half an inch. the official total yesterday was 17.2 inches by midnight, although some places got much, much more.
the anchorage daily news tells us that 17.2 inches makes it the third snowiest single-day event in anchorage history. we were here for the snowiest day -- 28 inches on st. patrick's day in 2002. pretty amazing.
here are a few photos i just took off our back deck.
the snow is really heavy, so a lot of it has already fallen off the railing. i'd guess we got about 15-18 inches. i think tonight we're going snowshoeing to take advantage of the very strange phenomenon of having 2 ft of snow on the ground AND daylight until 11 p.m.
did i mention that terry has rehung the stockings and started playing the charlie brown christmas album?
Posted by cmandala at April 26, 2008 11:06 AM