 Don't plan to picnic in Flagstaff this weekend! Update on Flagstaff's Winter Storm as of Friday, January 22, 2010: It's not very often that a city discourages visitors, but that's exactly what's happening in Flagstaff. City, County and Forest Service officials ask visitors to "play in their own backyards" this weekend instead of heading for Flagstaff's snowplay areas. There will be insufficient parking and safety personnel available this weekend to handle snowplay. Roads remain difficult and 5-9 more inches of snow are expected tonight. Flagstaff residents should not travel to a store without calling first to make sure it's open -- many commercial businesses, including groceries and pharmacies, are closed due to roof collapses or sagging. Here's the latest update from Flagstaff's Mayor and Coconino County Supervisors.
Update from Flagtaff's Mayor as of Friday, January 22, 2010 6:45 a.m.: Overnight was probably the worst of the storm. Immediate impact included collapsing roofs on some Flagstaff businesses. Expectation that roads will be open by tomorrow. Stay home today and let the city do it's work. Read Flagstaff Mayor's Letters to Community here. List of other sources of info about Flagstaff's winter storm on Twitter below.
Here's the original post from January 21:
If you've never seen a reason to set up a Twitter account, Flagstaff’s amazing winter storm is a good reason to do so now. Flagstaff Mayor Sara Presler has declared a State of Emergency and I hear that Coconino County has as well – but no one is available at the County to put it on the web. Presler was interviewed on The Weather Channel this afternoon, talking about how Flagstaff citizens can help each other get through the storm.
Flagstaff’s local paper, the Arizona Daily Sun, is providing some great, in-depth coverage, but its reporting is much slower than Twitter’s collection of news. By the way, Flagstaff’s winters don’t feature these storms regularly – this may one of the three worst in the last 100 years. Yesterday was a gorgeous day – sunny, warm and the mountains were decorated in snow. It’s likely to be that way Sunday, too. Meanwhile, there is flooding in Sedona and the Phoenix area.
Follow some local and state sources on Twitter – you don’t have to “tweet” yourself to follow others. Or, if your “principles” just won’t allow you to use Twitter, just click on the links below and follow each site separately. The advantage of Twitter is that you see news from all of these sites on one page. Set up your account at Twitter.com and then "follow" news sites about the storms. Here are some useful Flagstaff and Arizona “twitterers” to follow for storm updates:
http://twitter.com/azds
http://twitter.com/ArizonaDOT
http://twitter.com/joeferguson
http://twitter.com/naztoday
http://twitter.com/AZPubRadio
http://twitter.com/sarapresler
http://twitter.com/AzEIN
http://twitter.com/AZFireInfo
http://twitter.com/insideNAU
http://twitter.com/VisitFlagstaff
http://twitter.com/azcInsider
Once this storm is passed, and we’ve dug out, you must know someone who will want to buy a Flagstaff home! Send them my way! Meanwhile, if you have other Twitter sites with Flagstaff storm news to suggest, put them in a comment here and I'll add them to the list. | 
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