That is much more snow than we typically received in Fairbanks.

But... I remember one time when I was living out of town up in the hills, in a relatively clear area exposed to wind, and we got an atypical weather front that put down perhaps six inches of snow, accompanied by 40 MPH winds. The wind direction, the terrain, the structures, and the parking area all interacted in such a fashion that the next morning I had to go out walking on the tightly packed drifted snow, some of it six or eight feet deep, taking soundings with a broom handle in order to find my car. To make it worse, my wife had left a window on the windward side cracked about half in inch. The car was filled to the dashboard with snow. We had to hire a bulldozer to clear the driveway (a mile and a half long) and it took several days to dig the car out and clear the snow out of it.

Good times, but only in reflection. At the time it wasn't that much fun.

tanstaafl.