Rod: In heavy snow years – and there were a lot – they would wash the snow off of the roofs of the Valdez OCC from the firewater system on Terminal. Roy Hansen had put a special “snow load” measuring device: it was a tape measure mounted to the ceiling in the HVAC room. It would show the sag of the roof. It had special markings every few inches, with the most extreme saying “RUN!” when we hit 12 inches of sag.
Kevin: One year, a controller went back in the server room after a typical Valdez snowstorm and the tape measure had pushed down about an inch below the shovel roof mark. They called the engineer to report it and he said, “Run like hell!” The SCADA Tech drew a new line on the wall at the bottom of the tape measure and labeled it, “Run like hell.”
See, Alyeska knew all about the "snow" and this was back in 2007! The above comments on Alyeska's very own web-site! Best call the "engineer"as the crude oil storage tanks are failing!
I guess before Alyeska moved its Operations Control Center from Valdez to Anchorage, the snow load was monitored by the "Operations". But then it appears nobody gave a rat's ass, but the company saved a lot of $money$ with that move!
