article_snippet: The biggest city, Anchorage, is so unseasonably warm that a winter festival could only go ahead after trucks drove in snow from a stockpile, and hide it under PVC to stop it from melting away.
article_snippet: Streets in Anchorage were snowless (left) for a winter festival, while volunteers (right) had to pile up snow and cover it with PVC so a sculpting competition could go ahed.
article_snippet: Cameras from local station KTUU showed the snow-less scenes in the city.
article_snippet: Their comments follow an unusual set-up for the annual Fur Rendezvous festival, in which Anchorage city authorities had to spread a thin coating of snow from diminishing stockpile to create a winter feel.
highlights_snippet: In largest city, Anchorage, snow for winter festival was driven in from stockpiles after less than an inch fell last month .
  