As if a record 82 inches of snow in December wasn’t enough to bury Juneau, more snow arrived this week.

The National Weather Service forecast up to an additional foot of snow possible for Juneau early this week, turning to a mix of rain and snow before turning to all rain for the weekend.

The prediction of even more snow is heaping more misery upon a weary community. Residents have been shoveling, plowing, snowblowing and hauling, trying to clear their streets and driveways, parking lots, sidewalks and cars from the deepest December on record.

The Fred Meyer store shut down for three days last week after the awning over its gas station partially collapsed and the company evacuated and closed the main store to clear the heavy snow load off the roof. The store reopened Sunday, Jan. 4.

The Nugget Mall also closed last week to allow managers to deal with the snow on the flat roof. As of Monday morning, the mall remained closed.

Municipal and state government offices closed on Monday, along with public schools.

“The main message I would be telling folks is that now is your window if you can safely start mitigation efforts for getting some of the snow off your roof, off of infrastructure, off of things that you need to get it off of in anticipation of getting more snow that could end up being heavy, now’s the time to be doing that,” Jeff Garmon, head meteorologist at the National Weather Service Juneau station, said Jan. 3.

Though a record for the month, December’s snowfall was a few inches short of the snowiest month ever on record in Juneau, when 86.3 inches fell in February 1965.

“If people are walking around saying that they can’t recall seeing as much snow, there’s a lot of truth to that, because the record bears that out,” Garmon said.

The state temporarily closed Thane Road south of downtown so that crews flying in a helicopter could trigger avalanches Jan. 1 in an attempt to stabilize the snow-covered slope above the road.

The risk of snowslides for downtown neighborhoods beneath Mount Juneau remains elevated, city officials have warned.

At least nine vessels and multiple boat shelters sank at Juneau’s harbors last week, radio station KTOO reported.

“We’ll be working in earnest ... raising vessels, but expect that to be a couple week process to get everything up,” Harbormaster Matt Creswell said Jan. 2.

The snow got so bad — and airport workers and their equipment so worn out — that the airport closed down the runway the evening of Dec. 30 to take a break, reopening the next morning.

It was a week of nonstop plowing at the airport.

“The depth was 50 inches of snow on the ground, which is the deepest snow depth ever recorded at the Juneau airport,” Nicole Ferrin, a warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service, said at a press briefing Dec. 31.

The previous record for accumulated snow at the airport was 41 inches in February 1949, radio station KTOO quoted Ferrin.

While Alaska Airlines could fly through the snow, smaller planes were stuck on the ground.

The community of Pelican, about 70 air miles southwest of Juneau, on Chichagof Island, went the entire month without a scheduled flight. The town of less than 100 residents does not have an airport, requiring amphibious planes to deliver people, freight and mail to town. The record snow and extreme cold conspired to block flights for all of December.

Alaska Seaplanes was able to get flights in and out of Pelican on New Year’s Day.

The weather had even blocked the town’s one state ferry sailing in December.