West digs out from record snow that's heading east
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - Road crews worked around the clock to remove 2 feet of snow from Spokane streets early Friday as the winter storm that set records in the West moved through the Great Lakes region and bore down on the Northeast.
Spokane city officials declared a "Condition Red" snow emergency, meaning crews were working 24 hours a day to complete a full city plow, with private contractors brought on to help.
"This is our priority," Mayor Mary Verner said. "We will get the community moving."
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The 19.4 inches of snow that had fallen at Spokane International Airport Thursday morning was the most in a 24-hour period since record keeping began in 1881. Another 4 inches had fallen by Thursday afternoon.
Records were similarly smashed in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, with 25 inches of snow. The past record was 16 inches in 1955.
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