too bad this isn't in tahoe

Cordova is amazingly beautiful. If I had the $, Id live there.

Awesome hunting and fishing!

Winning: I think I'd like to live in Alaska over the winter at least once just to see what it's like while I'm still young enough to put up with the bullshiat that'll come with the experience.

I said and did the same thing four years ago, I had never before lived in a place that snowed before. Having left after three years there I am so farking happy I don't deal with god damn snow and darkness anymore.

traveling back toTexas for X-mas; The freeways were still showing closed online. chanced it. It was rough. Played it safe, got behind a semi to Roswell, didn't see the yellow lines on the road until Pecos. traction control on the 2010 Camry was going off like a Klaxon. saw a couple people spin out right in front of us. Made it into San Antonio about 1230p, after 18 hours on the road. couldn't believe I did it, wife was astounded on the way back I attempted it. My teenage son took plenty of pics, and he said he couldn't rest, because he was afraid at any moment we'd wind up spun out on the side of the road.

/Watching people in front of you spin out.
//That's a lot of popcorn.

No worries, Sarah to the rescue!!

Norv Turner: too bad this isn't in tahoe

A-farkin-men

this year sucks

The Inuit lived there for how many years?

No Wal-marts. No electricity.

Cry more N008S!

A lot of flat roofs up there. Seems to me like a high-peaked roof would be much better given the amount of snow that can fall.

In the late 1970s, the Valdez-Cordova newspaper was up for sale. A college friend already owned the Wrangell Sentinel in SE Alaska and encouraged me to consider buying it. They'd just opened the ski area in Cordova the year before but had to raise the lift towers because there was too much snow. When my wife heard about that, she said NFW.

So ended my career as an American Rupert Murdoch.

As a point of reference, the standard height for an 18-wheeler in the US is 13'6".

Cordova is under a shiatload of snow.

Snow troll.

ecmoRandomNumbers: AnubisMan: Winning: I think I'd like to live in Alaska over the winter at least once just to see what it's like while I'm still young enough to put up with the bullshiat that'll come with the experience.

I said and did the same thing four years ago, I had never before lived in a place that snowed before. Having left after three years there I am so farking happy I don't deal with god damn snow and darkness anymore.

I'm the total opposite. I could live in snow year-round. I'm a native Arizonan and I farking hate 350+ days per year of sunshine. I lived in Southern Chile for a couple years and I LOVED the rain and snow. I'd love to live in Alaska.

To each their own. I prefer somewhere that isn't an icy hellhole 7 months out of the year. They don't use salt, the roads turn into sheets of ice, but don't worry they threw down some sand and gravel which will fark your windshield up. Smart move is to slow down but the Real Alaskans™ adjust their camouflage hats and go even faster because they've seen it for hundreds of winters. Well, I've seen a car crash about every other day, or cars in the ditches on the side of the freeway full of these people. I thought SoCal had bad drivers, Alaska is bordering on third world country style driving.

where is your white fang now?

this winter has been too warm and no snow here. means lots of bugs next year. lots of them.

They need to cut taxes and let the free market figure it out.

My friend was on his way to Alyeska and this shiat went down. He got lucky he wasn't stuck out there in that avalanche.

Winning: I think I'd like to live in Alaska over the winter at least once just to see what it's like while I'm still young enough to put up with the bullshiat that'll come with the experience.

Ah, it's not so bad. Down here on the coast it's quite tepid. The rain on top of the snow is a a right pain in the ass. Spent a large part of my childhood in Fairbanks. There isn't enough money in the world to make me live up there again.

Omahawg: where is your white fang now?

Canada?

/I'm not really sure what you're talking about, but I'm pretty sure most of that story happened in Canada.

Galwran: buried under 15 feet of snow

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Meh. That looks more like five feet and less than that in many places. Pretty regular here in Finland, at least in the northern parts.

They were probably measuring a big drift that went over a deep ditch.

That kind of weather isn't too uncommon.
My city would probably slow down for a day while people dug that out but it's hardly the end of the world.

We can deal with it pretty fine, but god knows I'd like global warming to turn this place back into a tropical wonderland ... minus the shallow sea that was here at the time.

I always wonder how they measure snow anyway.

1 foot of snow fell today but only an inch or two is on the road/sidewalk.

What? The rest spontaneously combusted ot melted it minus 10 degree weather?

They ran out of shovels? Doesn't everybody in town already have a shovel? Do they wait until there is 15'1" before they start shoveling?

champion_dung_spreader: They ran out of shovels? Doesn't everybody in town already have a shovel? Do they wait until there is 15'1" before they start shoveling?

I don't know. We should ask an Alaskan.

You'd think everyone in Alaska would already own a snow shovel.

Ex-Texan: traveling back toTexas for X-mas; The freeways were still showing closed online. chanced it. It was rough. Played it safe, got behind a semi to Roswell, didn't see the yellow lines on the road until Pecos. traction control on the 2010 Camry was going off like a Klaxon. saw a couple people spin out right in front of us. Made it into San Antonio about 1230p, after 18 hours on the road. couldn't believe I did it, wife was astounded on the way back I attempted it. My teenage son took plenty of pics, and he said he couldn't rest, because he was afraid at any moment we'd wind up spun out on the side of the road.

/Watching people in front of you spin out.
//That's a lot of popcorn.

About 15 years ago I was on a highway in upstate NY at night. I passed a semi parked on the side of the road and thought it odd until I noticed the brake lights of the car ahead if me come on, then completely disappear, then headlights, then tail and brake lights again.

That was when I thought it a good time to take my foot off the gas and coast through the black ice.

/CSB

More undeniable proof of climate change

Read some of Robert Service's work. Alaska in the late 1800's
"A bunch of the boys were whooping it up at the Malamute Saloon..."

FTFA: "and the city put out an advisory to boat owners that 16 inches of snow could accumulate and boats should be cleared."

Gee, ya think?

Meh. A few years ago, parts of NY disappeared under snow deeper than this. Where was the love for us? Did we get a headline?

You know what? We didn't need one. Because we are way more bootstrappy than these Alaskan pansies, who need to hike up their skirts and get to work.

You live in farking Alaska. On purpose. Don't want snow? Move to Florida.

Came for 30 Day of Night reference, left disappointed.

An-Unnecessarily-Long-Name: Cordova is amazingly beautiful. If I had the $, Id live there.

Awesome hunting and fishing!

Don't forget the soft Corinthian leather!

Winning: I think I'd like to live in Alaska over the winter at least once just to see what it's like while I'm still young enough to put up with the bullshiat that'll come with the experience.

I spent a full year in anchorage. Really gorgeous, but screw that shiat. The winter I was there it got down to -25 for a week and my car battery couldnt start my car up anymore. Didn't have a garage which made the experience all-the-more authentic.

But damn if the summers weren't awesome if you wore enough mosquito repellant.

Sarah Palin can melt it with all her hot air.

When interviewing 32 companies after graduating college in Massachusetts, my first priority was:

No snow

Sarah Palin's Alaska?

Don't say he didn't warn you...
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Twitch Boy: Anchorage is ...... Right on the ocean....
They're running out of places to put snow.

I have a modest suggestion...

What a lot of people are forgetting is that, unlike the place you live that gets a lot of snow, a ton of these towns are completely inaccessible by road and a long farking way from anything. So if they are short of things it really is a problem.

It's more than just how much snow has fallen.

If Bristol Palin really is moving back to Alaska, the heat coming off of her cooch would melt this stuff in a few hours.

Sounds intriguing. Perhaps a Miami Dentist needs to come up and show them how it's done.