“Thompson Pass is difficult, but still open”
From the Anchorage Daily News:
“We have a drift that’s gotta be 8 or 9 feet high at the station and our transmitter shack is almost completely buried.”
The snow wasn’t just falling but blowing around creating white-out conditions. The Cordova Police Department asked drivers to stay off the road for a while said dispatcher Nancy Gentry. “The snowplows were not running because visibility was only 10 or 15 feet,” she said.
Last Spring, a 'bad' snow year