Alaska braces for "epic" storm; evacuations begin

[luckytxn 2,265]

http://www.visitnome...me-web-cam.html <----- webcam in Nome

Hey Kip tell them to go get someone up and clean the Cam.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Hey Kip tell them to go get someone up and clean the Cam.

All I see on that cam is something like a giant mud puddle and a few shadows. I wonder if the wind pushed it out of whack or something. It should be facing either Front St. or the Ocean.

[luckytxn 2,265]

All I see on that cam is something like a giant mud puddle and a few shadows. I wonder if the wind pushed it out of whack or something. It should be facing either Front St. or the Ocean.

Yeah it looks bad. Someone get up there and clean and set it right and the viewing enjoyment goes up.

[Captain Oates 911]

You can see Alaska from Russia

[Amby 490]

My friend posted a video of them trying to get out on their snow machine last night. She said after about 30 seconds they turned around because they were already "lost". Crazies! I would never be able to live there.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

My friend posted a video of them trying to get out on their snow machine last night. She said after about 30 seconds they turned around because they were already "lost". Crazies! I would never be able to live there.

Every year people (mainly Eskimo's) die from getting lost. Usually they lose their sense of direction and end up walking or riding (snow machines) out onto the ice pack in the ocean thinking they are on land. Next thing they know they are drifting out to sea on a giant piece of ice, usually never to be seen again. Today two Eskimo's near here died when they went through river ice on their snow machine.

A person gets snow blind quick, especially when the wind is cranked up and the next thing you know you have zero sense of direction and you can't see your hand in front of your face.

Edited November 10, 2011 by Why_Me

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

You can see Alaska from Russia

lol @ Sarah. But ya, there's a few places you can see Russia from up here. In fact you can ski to Russia on the pack ice during the winter if you hop island to island.

[TBoneTX 46,041]

No tree's and the wind never seems to stop blowing.

I thought that was Adak, brrrr man.

If the Eek Convention & Visitors' Bureau produces bumper-stickers, I want one, si man.

http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/alaska/eek

Snow is just "fat water," but what worthless stuff. If I never see another snowflake, I won't care, no man.

Edited November 10, 2011 by TBoneTX

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

I thought that was Adak, brrrr man.

If the Eek Convention & Visitors' Bureau produces bumper-stickers, I want one, si man.

http://www.citytowninfo.com/places/alaska/eek

Snow is just "fat water," but what worthless stuff. If I never see another snowflake, I won't care, no man.

Population 280, and I'm betting anyone there who's over age 60 barely speaks English. They speak Yupik Eskimo there and a lot of those villagers need translators when they come into town for medical, dental, etc...

Not sure if they would have a bumper sticker...probably all 4 wheelers, snow machines, and maybe a few trucks if that.

[TBoneTX 46,041]

Population 280, and I'm betting anyone there who's over age 60 barely speaks English. They speak Yupik Eskimo there and a lot of those villagers need translators when they come into town for medical, dental, etc...

Not sure if they would have a bumper sticker...probably all 4 wheelers, snow machines, and maybe a few trucks if that.

A honeymoon destination for the clueless in the upper fora who arrive on a K-1 and immediately want to leave the U.S. for mooning, honey. The Eek Marriott is almost completed, si man?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

A honeymoon destination for the clueless in the upper fora who arrive on a K-1 and immediately want to leave the U.S. for mooning, honey. The Eek Marriott is almost completed, si man?

We have population 2,000 here with no roads in and no roads out. The wife has been in the US for close to two years now and other than a 5 hour lay over in Chicago where she had to pick up her cat from customs via a cab ride, she has yet to see the Lower 48. Top that off with the fact she spends a lot of her time flying in single prop planes to these podunk villages...some without modern plumbing and she's ready to kill me. I promised her a trip to Seattle this summer, and if it doesn't happen I think I might be toast.

[TBoneTX 46,041]

We have population 2,000 here with no roads in and no roads out. The wife has been in the US for close to two years now and other than a 5 hour lay over in Chicago where she had to pick up her cat from customs via a cab ride, she has yet to see the Lower 48. Top that off with the fact she spends a lot of her time flying in single prop planes to these podunk villages...some without modern plumbing and she's ready to kill me. I promised her a trip to Seattle this summer, and if it doesn't happen I think I might be toast.

Yours is a teeming metropolis, si man. What does she do in these podunk villages, huh man? With winter coming, you'd be warmer as toast, see man.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Yours is a teeming metropolis, si man. What does she do in these podunk villages, huh man? With winter coming, you'd be warmer as toast, see man.

She works for the native hospital here (BIA) as a dental assistant. She fly's out for a week or two at a time sometimes sleeping on the floor of this "mini clinics" in her sleeping bag. Usually it's 12 - 16 hour days on these trips trying to get all the villagers in before they fly out. All this is on the US tax payers dime of course. The natives pay a big fat whopping ZERO for medical, dental, optical, etc...

[Sofiyya 1,687]

We have population 2,000 here with no roads in and no roads out. The wife has been in the US for close to two years now and other than a 5 hour lay over in Chicago where she had to pick up her cat from customs via a cab ride, she has yet to see the Lower 48. Top that off with the fact she spends a lot of her time flying in single prop planes to these podunk villages...some without modern plumbing and she's ready to kill me. I promised her a trip to Seattle this summer, and if it doesn't happen I think I might be toast.

Ah, Seattle, the Riviera of Alaska!

[Leatherneck 693]

We have population 2,000 here with no roads in and no roads out. The wife has been in the US for close to two years now and other than a 5 hour lay over in Chicago where she had to pick up her cat from customs via a cab ride, she has yet to see the Lower 48. Top that off with the fact she spends a lot of her time flying in single prop planes to these podunk villages...some without modern plumbing and she's ready to kill me. I promised her a trip to Seattle this summer, and if it doesn't happen I think I might be toast.

You owe her big time. I'm sure she'll enjoy Pike Place and while you're there, take her over to Ivar's to get some clam chowder.