Top 'o the morning to you all!
Here a brief blip from my friendly neighbor...
Happy Monday!?
This morning the Northern Lights are out, and it is 9*. Last Thursday night/Friday
morning, we were all awakened to the strange sound of rain on our
roofs. It didn’t rain very much (of course, I don’t really know for
sure since my weather instruments blew over), but it was enough to make
everything soggy and melted and messy and for most of our ten inches of
snow to disappear. Later, around 8 am, an amazing Chinook wind blew in, blowing for nearly 6 hours when it suddenly just stopped.
The
whole interior experienced wild weather - three inches of rain in
Valdez, slippery roads everywhere, Richardson near Valdez had an
avalanche, school was closed in Fairbanks and North Pole. I heard the
road between Fairbanks and North Pole were closed for a little while.
The road to the Pogo mine was closed. And, I’m sure there are more
stories.
In the mean time, after the wind and
rain, Thomas and Tommy hopped on big machines and Garth hopped on his
little machine. The guys flattened the roads and walkways so we can get
around a tiny bit easier than slogging through April sized ruts. There
is debris everywhere with no hope of a fresh snow covering before
convention.
Jennifer’s grandfather, Ralph
Horender, passed away this past week. The memorial service is being
held today. If anyone wants contact info for Jennifer or her mom, send
me an email.
We’ve been doing convention clean ups and cooking of foods this past week. As mentioned, our meetings start on Wednesday morning at 10 am. Second service will begin at 4 am.
Whitestone
had quite the time with their convention since their ice bridge went
out the day before they were to begin. They began boating again. They
try to keep the boat trips contained to daylight hours due to ice in the
river. That made travel more difficult.
I’d like to chat on, but I must get myself ready for the day/week. Have a good one! Sarah
Thank you Sarah, now back to me...
It seems we will be having a pretty modified convention for 2014, what with the weather conditions, and FM and TM being more spread out it seems. the northern farms are getting to be a little more arduous for all to travel as time goes on. The Lord knows.
Some of our more senior population has been advised to stay in their cabins and/or wear cleats since the trucks that are pretty much the only vehicles able to go around in this slushy mess, leave deep ruts which are hard to navigate when they are frozen and hard and slippery. I WEAR MY ice CLEATS ALL THE TIME AND THEY ARE A FALL SAVER...I can't afford to fall on the ice and get hurt, not fun. Rob recently told me: "Don't worry Mom, I'll watch over you!"....awww
Here is a link to the wind storm taken from my porch.
Further down south on the Alaska Highway which passes infront of our property, there have even been snow avalanches. Check this link out! This happened in Valdez which is relatively close to where Pat and Beth live. Wow Scary!!
During the wind storm I even had a young man help me to the Tab since I kept being pushed towards the snow banks even walking a short distance. The boys, Rob included, enjoyed that time of strong winds to practice a modified form of parasailing. This entailed climbing into a palstic sled and spreading their coats out to act as sails and letting the wind blow them away. I took a short clip of their activities from the warmth and protection of the high school vestibule. Here's a link to the boys having fun.
January has been an amazing month for the Aurora or Northern Lights. Here is a link to some of the photos others have taken.
Have a great week everybody!
