View west to port Valdez, the glacial fiord that will be the Trans-Alaska pipeline terminus, with Robe lake in the foreground the Lowe river dumps its burden of silty rock flour into port Valdez ...

But on Jan. 16, 1990, 35 years ago, an Alaska town was clobbered by a series of snowstorms ... But the sheer weight of this snow sunk six boats in the port of Valdez and caved in one city storage ...