(12 Mar 2021) FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4315383
Residents in some parts of Alaska's large city woke up to a surprise Thursday morning: up to 18 inches of snow fell overnight.
It was quite a shock for Judi Westfall of Anchorage, who returned home the day before from Sedona, Arizona. She said the forecast in Sedona was for snow, and she thought she'd escape it by returning home to Alaska. "It was a little bit of shock," she said, taking a break from shoveling the driveway while her husband, Dirk, ran the snowblower.
National Weather Service meteorologist Michael Kutz it was an unusual snow in that the western side of Anchorage got a lot less snow than the eastern side. While the parts of Anchorage closet to the mountains were shoveling almost a foot-and-a-half of snow, those on the western side, or closet to the ocean, had only about 3 inches.
Even where snow was deepest, there were few problems in a city that is accustomed to operating as normal after a storm, even one that drops a lot of snow.
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