The snow of 1993 in stories and pictures, Pages B2 and B3.It's been a winter of broken records along the Wasatch Front - and the winter is far from over.
Snowstorms piled more than 3 feet of the white stuff on towns used to seeing snowfalls of such magnitude confined to higher elevations. It hasn't snowed like that in 40-odd years.Nobody can say he wasn't affected by the deluge.
Carports collapsed, phone lines failed, travelers were stranded, the National Guard was mobilized, and 52 cars were involved in one single, icy post-blizzard accident.
Car salesmen found it hard to do much business under the circumstances, while emergency-room doctors and nurses were unusually busy treating people who had fallen off roofs they tried to shovel or who had imprudently stuck a hand or digit into a buzzing snow blower.
It brought out the best and inspired the bizarre. Civic-minded residents ran errands for elderly neighbors, and high school students free from school teamed up to dig out snowbound cars. The roof caved in on a library. Hungry elk and deer wandered into town. A man enraged at the weather attacked a snowplow driver.
All of it because of a series of storms that began Jan. 2 with one that dumped 9 inches at Salt Lake International Airport. Seven days later the airport recorded 8.4 inches, and 7.5 more on Jan. 11. Added to back-to-back 6-inch accumulations on Jan. 7-8 and a batch of smaller storms, January's total snowfall was 42 inches by Jan. 13, breaking a local record for the most snow in a single month, with considerably more expected.
Avalanches closed the road through Provo Canyon, stranding skiers at Sundance Resort for four days, and in Park City crews piled snow 30 or 40 feet high to make room for visitors to park their cars downtown. Cities argued about where the National Guard should help out first, and more than a few angry residents of forgotten cul-de-sacs found their driveways buried, seemingly for the duration.
It has been the sort of January from which weather legend is spun, the kind people retell - and revise - for years to come. What follows is a collection of stories from a sampling of the survivors.