Anchorage: Children won't know what municipal parking lots look like

Anchorage Struggling with Too Much Snow

With its snow dumps almost to capacity, Anchorage, Alaska, is struggling to find places to put its record amounts of snow.

Anchorage has already received more than 100 inches* of snow this year, shattering the annual average of approximately 75 inches. At least one private company has stopped accepting snow, saying their snow dumps are full after receiving 7,000 truckloads of snow this season.

So Anchorage has begun filling its parking lots. In some cases, hundreds of thousands of dump truck loads of snow fill municipal parking lots waiting for the spring thaw. However, some say there’s so much snow it may not all thaw this summer.