The day after a record storm whomped the urban heart of Anchorage with 2 to 3 feet of snow, city residents rose from their clogged neighborhoods to mount a pitched battle with shovels, snowblowers and plows.

Amid the whir of rotary blades and the crunch of scoop shovels, thousands of regular citizens and hundreds of government workers tried to excavate driveways, sidewalks, buried cars, suburban roofs, fire hydrants, parking lots, stairways -- and 800 miles of snow-choked streets.

"Obviously we've never had this much snow in a 24-hour period," said acting city maintenance director Dan Southard. "We're continuing on our plan -- it's the same plan that we follow on every storm -- but everything is taking longer. But we're out there."

Beginning Saturday evening and lasting almost 24 hours, the storm officially dumped 28.7 inches of snow at the U.S. Weather Service station near Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, burying the previous 24-hour snowfall record of 15.6 inches.

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Two days after the heaviest 24-hour snowfall in Anchorage history, Tuesday's brilliant sunshine melted berms into slush while an army of plow jockeys shaved, sliced and hauled dense slop still clogging many streets.

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