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This photo provided by the Alaska Department of Transportation shows snow from an avalanche covers a road outside of Valdez, Alaska on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Alaska highway officials say they expect to reopen an avalanche-choked highway by Wednesday afternoon, nearly two weeks after walls of snow cut off the only road into Valdez. (AP Photo/Alaska Dept. of Transportation)

Alaska highway to Valdez could reopen Wednesday

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press

A photo released Wednesday Jan. 29, 2014, by the Alaska Department of Transportation &amp; Public Facilities and made on Jan. 25, 2014, shows road crews beginning the job of clearing the closed Richardson Highway, near Valdez, Alaska. At least a dozen avalanches dumped snow on sections of the roadway Friday along 27 miles of the highway, the only road access to the city at the end of the trans-Alaska pipeline.(AP Photo/Alaska DOT&amp;PF)

Drainage slows on highway lake formed by avalanche

By DAN JOLING - Associated Press