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First release said delayed...
Second cancelled...
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Southcentral Alaska snowfall delays Anchorage school openings
Chris Klint
November 9, 2015
Anchorage schools are opening two hours late amid a slippery commute Monday as the city recovers from a dump of snow that also hit parts of the Mat-Su overnight.

As of 7:45 a.m., Anchorage police spokeswoman Anita Shell said dispatchers had received reports of 11 accidents and two accidents with injuries -- almost all of them in town -- as well as 27 vehicles in distress.

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“Of the vehicles in distress, almost all of those are on the Glenn Highway,” Shell said. “People are slipping, sliding and crashing into each other.”

Shell said police were encountering very icy conditions on the Glenn inbound from the highway’s North Eagle River exit.

According to the Anchorage School District’s Facebook page, high schools will open at 9:30 a.m., with middle schools opening at 10:15 a.m. and elementary schools opening at 11 a.m.

“School will get out at the normal time today,” ASD officials wrote.

District spokeswoman Heidi Embley said that school bus service has also been delayed two hours to accommodate the delayed school start times.

Camp Fire Alaska said Monday that its before-school and after-school programs would be operating on their regular schedule Monday, despite ASD's delayed start for the day.

A winter weather advisory from the National Weather Service for the Southcentral region, in effect from 6 p.m. Sunday through 3 a.m. Monday, had called for heavy snow with limited visibility overnight.

“A potent storm system will bring heavy snow to Anchorage and the Mat-Su Sunday through Sunday night,” forecasters wrote. “The worst and longest-lived conditions will be in the Susitna Valley, with some of the heaviest snow expected along the Parks Highway corridor.”

Ken Barkley, Mat-Su Emergency Services deputy director, said crews had responded to several collisions, none of them serious. Those included a T-bone collision on Knik-Goose Bay Road near Settlers Bay Road, as well as a bus in a ditch in the West Lakes area.

"We've got about 6 inches of snow this morning," Barkley said.

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Michael Kutz, a forecaster in the Anchorage NWS office, said urban snowfall reports ranged from 2.2 inches in Anchorage to 2.5 inches in Palmer. Farther north, the weather service had received reports of 6 inches of snowfall along parts of the Parks Highway and 9 inches in Willow.

Mat-Su Borough School District spokeswoman Catherine Esary said no delayed school openings or closures were in effect.

“We are open and we might expect some slight delays with the bus routes, but we are open and as on-time as possible,” Esary said.

While Kutz didn’t call road conditions dangerous, he urged drivers across Southcentral to exercise caution on morning commutes.

“It’s one of those you definitely want to take it easy on,” Kutz said. “Temps are hovering just above freezing -- where places are plowed are slick, so when you hit the gas you’re not going to go.”

The Kenai Peninsula Borough School District reported on its Facebook page that two schools -- Soldotna Elementary and Soldotna Montessori -- were closed due to a power outage.

"All other KPBSD schools are open on a normal schedule," district officials wrote..

Monday’s NWS forecast for Southcentral Alaska calls for partly sunny skies with scattered snow showers and high temperatures in the mid-30s, giving way to mostly cloudy skies and continuing snow showers with lows in the upper teens to mid-20s by evening.

Going forward Monday, Kutz said, the forecast didn’t call for significant additions to those snowfall totals during the day.

“We’re probably not going to see all that much extra,” Kutz said. “(We’re) probably going to see a couple more inches in the low-lying areas and probably Palmer and Wasilla, and probably 1 to 2 more as you go up into the Parks.”

Check back for updates on this developing story.

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School canceled in Anchorage amid worsening road conditions

School in Anchorage has been canceled Monday as the city recovers from a dump of snow that also hit parts of the Mat-Su overnight Sunday.

It alternated between rain and snow and with the way the snow packed down on side streets it's flat nasty in spots.

my brother-in-law was told not to go to work the day of the first snow after he moved to alaska, what the first report describes the reason his boss told him to say home.

wait till everyone who has moved to alaska and hasn't driven in the snow puts their car in the ditch then you can go out as usual

I blame it mostly on the State/ muni. They have a pretty dang good idea when snow is coming. Get the sand trucks out and spread some sand on the main arteries! Oh wait that would cost $$$ and make sense. Never mind

Stupid people believe in "studless" winter tires. Funny as hell.

Stupider people don't change the way they drive on snow and ice with or without studs.

Hahaha.........wait until we get some real snow, the muni will go into panic mode.

Funny. Around here (Montana) the tire sellers promote studless tires for winter driving. I have become a wuss, so to speak, in that I buy a set of studded tires every Winter. Give me studded tires every time.

Too broad a brush Art! You can thank me for the title change later

Well, Fairbanks had a snow day in September! (Granted, it was most of a foot of snow in places, dumped on roads that weren't really ready for winter yet.)

Ouch!
laughing!

We had a legit hurricane come through this year, with sustained winds forecasted for over 75mph. They didn't even consider closing the school.

Not surprising. skAnchorage is mostly made up of DSMF transient trash.

That is erring the wrong way. Too much stuff gets lifted around in those winds- unless you happen to be in protected areas, asphalt shingles for starters, although metal roofing is probably used if the area in question is subject to regular winds.

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