June 15, 2022
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whatsupyukon.com column with
Dan Davidson
A KLONDIKE KORNER
After three decades in classrooms in Beaver Creek, Faro and Dawson, Dan Davidson retired to continue writing, as he had been all those years. Please send comments about his stories to dawson@whatsupyukon.com.
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PHOTOS: DAN DAVIDSON
This street, near the new DCMF Building, was typical of many in this part of town
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Except for Front Street, which is part of the Klondike Highway, Dawson’s streets are dirt. This is because we have to dig into them so often for sewer and water line repairs—not, as some people like to say, because we want to look historic. When there is a lot more water than usual, that leaves us with lots of puddles. We always have some, but this year’s snow load is exceptional—and so Lanes also filled with water is the result. The March, raised the street levels. This col- April and May reports (dealing umn is about the flip side of the with February, March and April), equation, when the white stuff from the Yukon’s hydrologist, show that the Dawson area rebecomes wet stuff. n a previous edition of the KK, I commented on the amount of snow we received here this winter, how it narrowed and
ceived 168%, 463% and 260% more snow than is normal here for those months, according to records that begin in the 1980s. That gave us 185%, 199% and 232% more snow water equivalent over the same three months. Meltwater streams down from the hills, east of town, creating new temporary creeks, widening the existing ditches and leaving large puddles in its wake as
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