The slides cut off power areawide and telephones in Thane.
A resident told police about 3 a.m. that Thane Road was blocked by an avalanche 100 feet long and 20 feet deep, about 2 miles south of downtown. It's the Cross Bay Creek avalanche path, near Suicide Falls.
Crew clears slide paths
March 28, 2000
Thane is expected to be closed off from downtown Juneau until late afternoon at the earliest and possibly until Tuesday as state road crews work to clear natural and human-triggered avalanches.
State officials expected to have both lanes reopened by early afternoon.
Thane, a neighborhood of about 70 homes and 180 residents, was cut off from downtown and the rest of Juneau when an avalanche covered the road about 3 a.m. Monday.
