Alaska town buried in 18 feet of snow gets shovel help from troops.

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska Dozens of National Guard troops armed with shovels deployed across a southeast Alaska fishing town on Monday after the coastal region was swamped with too much snow.

Worst hit was Cordova, a town used to snow, but not like this season's blanketing.
The Guard reported more than 18 feet of snow has fallen in the past few weeks.

"There's nowhere to go with the snow because it's piled up so high," said Wendy Rainney, who owns the Orca Adventure Lodge. A storage building for the lodge � which offers fishing trips, hiking, kayaking and glacier tours � partially collapsed under the weight of the snow, she said.
"This is more quantity than can be handled."
At least three buildings have collapsed or partially collapsed and six homes are deemed severely stressed by heavy wet snow, officials said.

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While this is going on, I live in south west Fl. The average tempt is 72 degrees.

For the last month the daily high has been averaging 77 or better. At 12:00pm the temp is 75 and climbing.

This time of year in Alaska sees nothing but dry powder snow that accumulates less in depth then wet snow.

When a usual U.S. snow storm hits, the accumulation is measured in inches not feet.
So lets do the math for 18 feet.
18 feet times 12 inches is what people?
216 inches of snow.
10 inches of snow equals about 1 inch of rain.
So in reality that poor town has received about 21.5 inches of rain in a couple of weeks.

The normal amount of precipitiaon this time of year is 6.21 inches.
That is three times the normal amount.

Yet just listen to the excepted science haters/deniers who say there is no fucking climate change.

Oh, and just for laughs, Cordova is under a blizzard warning today, which forecast another 4 to 10 inches of snow.