2 ski resorts are still open in the USA - Timberline in Oregon and Mammoth. Mammoth's base is now down to 24 - 90" and will likely close on the final weekend in July, a week short of their latest closing. It's been very warm recently with temps on the mountain reaching the 80s. They needed a cool to average early summer to get the record but instead had record high temps.
Hard to imagine 7' of snow after a few weeks of temps in the 80s.
After a few days of shower and storms, it looks like Sunday could end up being a rainy day. All depends on where the low pressure tracks late in the weekend.
It shot me out of a deep sleep like I've never been awakened before. Our house shook too...my wife said "the trash company dropped a trash can" to which I looked at her and said "yeah, our house always shakes like that when a trash can hits the street."
Seward, I absolutely love! Only place I've ever been, standing on the shore of the Pacific, breathing in the salt air, and looking at the snow-capped mountains on the edge of town. Gorgeous.
Air into Anchorage. Rented a van and saw the southern half to two thirds of the state. Let me tell you, that is a lot of driving.
Visited Seward, Anchorage, Wasilla, Palmer, Talkeetna, Healy, Fairbanks and Denali National Park. Amazing trip.
It's been 10 years since I was there - I took my family of 6 to a Salmon Bake the night we arrived and dropped a cool $400 for dinner. No alcohol and 3 of those meals were from the kids menu.
After that, we adjusted our dining plan for the remaining 9 days. Ate lunch at a Subway the following day and that set me back $100 - that was the heyday of Subways $5 footlong promo...Alaskans didn't get the memo. Footlongs were $11.50 and up.
My son just waited 1 hour and 25 minutes to get gas at Sheetz - I said son, you just went through a tank to replace it with another one. LOL
(Gas is $1.77.6 today)