{"id":8587,"date":"2015-11-30T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/road-officials-use-howitzer-to-start-snow-slide-near-highway\/"},"modified":"2015-11-30T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T06:15:10","slug":"road-officials-use-howitzer-to-start-snow-slide-near-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/road-officials-use-howitzer-to-start-snow-slide-near-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Road officials use howitzer to start snow slide near highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014<\/strong> The Alaska Department of Transportation used an artillery piece Sunday to lower avalanche danger along the Parks Highway north of Cantwell.<\/p>\n<p>The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported DOT workers fired the weapon at Panorama Mountain between Cantwell and the entrance to Denali National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The artillery fire created snow slides aimed at making travel safer from Mile 216 to Mile 220.<\/p>\n<p>Avalanches there in 2004 buried the Parks Highway under as much as 20 feet of snow.<\/p>\n<p>Highway maintenance foreman Rick Lee says the howitzer started four productive slides that will decrease the avalanche risk throughout the rest of the winter.<\/p>\n<p>Only a few inches of snow from the slides reached the highway and Lee says it didn\u2019t impede traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 The Alaska Department of Transportation used an artillery piece Sunday to lower avalanche danger along the Parks Highway north of Cantwell. The Fairbanks Daily <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/\">News<\/a>-Miner reported DOT workers fired the weapon at Panorama Mountain between Cantwell and the entrance to Denali National Park. The artillery fire created snow slides aimed at making travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-8587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8587"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}