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   > But climate scientists said this isn't supposed to be happening.   
   > Alaska is supposed to melt and fall into the ocean.   
      
   Crews worked to clear snow off roads across Anchorage on Saturday as   
   drivers navigated rough, icy streets in some parts of town in the wake   
   of this week’s major winter storm — and more snow is on the way.   
      
   City road maintenance crews were digging out residential roads Saturday   
   after the storm dumped up to 30 inches of snow on Anchorage. Major   
   arterial roads maintained by the city had been cleared by Friday   
   afternoon, and crews were focused on the still-buried neighborhoods,   
   according to the city’s Office of Emergency Management.   
      
   The municipality also shifted its efforts to work on some   
   state-maintained roads that the Alaska Department of Transportation was   
   struggling to clear, in an attempt to get ahead of the coming storm,   
   city and state officials said.   
      
   The heavy moisture content in the snow this week caused it to compact   
   quickly and act like concrete, forming deep ruts in the road as cars   
   drove over it and temperatures dropped, DOT spokeswoman Shannon McCarthy   
   said.   
      
   “It takes a much longer time to cut through this hard snowpack, so we   
   can’t use our high-speed plows; we have to use graders,” she said. “The   
   municipality actually has a ton of graders. So this was a really good   
   partnership for us.”   
      
   “We had capacity to assist them with some of their main roads that we   
   were getting complaints about,” said Veronica Hoxie, a spokeswoman for   
   Mayor Dave Bronson.   
      
   According to the mayor’s office, state roads that city crews have   
   already started working on include several main thoroughfares on the   
   Hillside, such as O’Malley Road, Huffman Road, DeArmoun Road, and   
   Hillside Drive between DeArmoun and O’Malley, all expected to be plowed   
   by late Saturday night.   
      
   The municipality received the most complaints about the Old Seward   
   Highway, Dimond Boulevard and C Street over the last several days, Hoxie   
   said.   
      
   McCarthy said the state prioritized the Glenn and Seward highways and   
   Minnesota Drive when the storm first hit, which caused some of these   
   other major roads to develop ruts before road crews could reach them.   
      
   “It really in some areas were like little wagon trails, because it had   
   dropped below freezing, and that had really set,” she said. “And the   
   further south you got, the worse it got, because of volume of snow.”   
      
   Other state roads set to be cleared by city crews include part of   
   Dimond, from Arctic Boulevard to the Seward Highway, plus much of   
   Raspberry Road and Jewel Lake Road, the mayor’s office said.   
      
   Meanwhile, another storm was headed for Southcentral Alaska, bringing   
   with it the likelihood of another 6 to 12 inches of snow falling on   
   Anchorage and Mat-Su starting Sunday night into Monday, according to the   
   National Weather Service.   
      
   While state and municipal crews worked to clear roads, many drivers   
   continued to report challenging road conditions across Anchorage,   
   including narrow lanes, slick streets and bumpy, uneven surfaces in some   
   areas.   
      
   “We’re really hitting it hard today,” McCarthy said Saturday. “And I   
   think we’ll be in pretty darn good shape by tomorrow night.”   
      
   To help make it easier for plows to clear roads downtown by reducing the   
   number of cars parked on the street, EasyPark was offering free parking   
   in all of its lots and garages through 11 p.m. Sunday.   
      
   As part of the “snow emergency” Bronson declared Thursday, the city   
   directed Anchorage residents to keep unattended vehicles off roadways as   
   public snow removal crews and private contractors worked to clear snow.   
      
   Parts of Anchorage received up to 30 inches of unusually wet, dense snow   
   during the brunt of the storm, and parts of Southcentral reported   
   snowfall totals up to 3 feet.   
      
   Several more inches of snow fell across Anchorage on Friday, making this   
   the city’s fifth-snowiest November on record already — with even more   
   snow in the forecast.   
      
   Snow will likely begin falling across the Anchorage Bowl and Eagle River   
   beginning late Sunday night, National Weather Service meteorologist   
   Carson Jones said Saturday.   
      
   Between 6 and 12 inches of snow was likely to fall through Monday   
   evening, with higher accumulation totals expected on the Anchorage   
   Hillside, he said.   
      
   “And just given the amount of snow that’s currently on the trees right   
   now, plus the introduction of more snow, that could lead to potentially   
   more widespread power outages,” he said.   
      
   Hoxie said Saturday that the city wasn’t concerned about its ability to   
   keep up with the coming storm, given adequate staffing and additional   
   resources it had been able to procure as part of the snow emergency.   
      
   “We’re prepared, and we’re hoping that things won’t get too terrible out   
   there,” she said.   
      
      
   Jones said the weather service was more confident about this storm’s   
   modeling than with the previous storm, which proved especially difficult   
   to pin down. He said this snowfall was expected to be lighter and   
   fluffier than the recent flakes, which were particularly wet and heavy.   
      
   Sunday night though Monday morning, much of the Mat-Su was expected to   
   get anywhere between 4 and 10 inches of snow, with up to 12 inches   
   likely through Hatcher Pass, Jones said.   
      
   Even more precipitation was possible across Southcentral Alaska later on   
   from Wednesday night into Thursday, with a chance of rain and snow   
   possible, Jones said, adding that predicted amounts for that storm were   
   still uncertain.   
      
   The heavy snowfall this week prompted the city to cancel service for   
   Anchorage’s People Mover buses on Thursday and Friday, leaving riders   
   without service for three days in a row: Operations remained closed   
   Saturday in observance of Veterans Day.   
      
   By Saturday evening, just a few hundred homes and businesses in   
   Anchorage, Mat-Su and on the Kenai Peninsula were still without power.   
   All told, more than 12,000 across the region had lost power at some   
   point due to the storm as heavy snow knocked down trees into power   
   lines.   
      
   Chugach Electric Association reported at about 5 p.m. Saturday that they   
   had over 200 customers still without power, mostly in Hope. Fewer than   
   50 members in Mat-Su were without power Saturday evening, according to   
   Matanuska Electric Association. And fewer than 100 customers remained   
   without power on the Kenai Peninsula, according to an update from Homer   
   Electric Association.   
      
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