Heading to Eagle River Alaska for Christmas.

We are looking forward to spending time with our son and DIL.

Wishing you and yours safe travels to visit the family in the ""Great White North"",,, Suggestion if you can make a detour up to North Pole, Alaska...Yes it is a real town.... Just a few miles east of Fairbanks, Alaska... Must see and visit "Santa Clause House"... For those stateside and will never be able to visit in person just check out Santa Clause House, North Pole , Alaska on the computer. ...... Especially If they are still offering a service to send a personalized letter to children on Santa Clause stationary with a North Pole postmark............ drill sgt.

Enjoy! In my almost 52 years on this planet, I have never seen a white Christmas. I live in Texas though. It would be nice to have one.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Enjoy! In my almost 52 years on this planet, I have never seen a white Christmas. I live in Texas though. It would be nice to have one.

In 1976 it was snowing when we walked out of midnight mass on Christmas Eve in Denton when I was fifteen, but best I recall it was gone before morning. Still, I remember it looked like a postcard at the pretty little church.

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Enjoy! In my almost 52 years on this planet, I have never seen a white Christmas. I live in Texas though. It would be nice to have one.

Oh we had one. I’m a year younger than you and I can remember one. 80’s or 90’s I forget which but it did snow. Was it the marketed bullshit with feet(s) of snow, nah, but it did snow. Snowing on Christmas is just marketing brother, same as that fat fuck and white beard. Fake.

Should be a white Christmas in Eagle River (north of Anchorage). I checked the Alyeska Ski Resort snow report (south of Anchorage) and they have 60" of base and 2" of new snow in the last 24 hours.

Not sure how the aurora borealis (aka northern lights)forecast is for next week as the site I checked only has a 2 day forecast. Might be worth keeping an eye on the forecast as it's very cool phenomenon to see. Unfortunately, it's usually damn cold out when it's clear enough to see.

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Originally posted by MelissaDallas:

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Enjoy! In my almost 52 years on this planet, I have never seen a white Christmas. I live in Texas though. It would be nice to have one.

In 1976 it was snowing when we walked out of midnight mass on Christmas Eve in Denton when I was fifteen, but best I recall it was gone before morning. Still, I remember it looked like a postcard at the pretty little church.

I guess I should have been more specific. I was born in Minnesota in 1973 and my parents moved to Texas in 1977. So I am sure I “saw” a white Christmas in Minnesota as a baby, but don’t remember it.

Prefontaine- Yup, totally agree.

Safe travels SW

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Originally posted by Prefontaine:

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Originally posted by StorminNormin:
Enjoy! In my almost 52 years on this planet, I have never seen a white Christmas. I live in Texas though. It would be nice to have one.

Oh we had one. I’m a year younger than you and I can remember one. 80’s or 90’s I forget which but it did snow. Was it the marketed bullshit with feet(s) of snow, nah, but it did snow. Snowing on Christmas is just marketing brother, same as that fat fuck and white beard. Fake.

'89 IIRC. NW Houston.
I was a whole 3 yrs old but vaguely recall snow that winter.

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Originally posted by Rightwire:

It's in between Anchorage and Wasyphillis

Eagle River has a lot of military personnel living there as it's adjacent to Joint Base Elmendorff (i.e. the Air Force portion of base) Richardson (i.e. the Army portion of the base).

The problem with a white Christmas is it’s cold…….until March.

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
The problem with a white Christmas is it’s cold…….until March.

You say that like it's a bad thing!

Got a dusting here last night. Cold the next couple of days, so it'll probably be a Whiteish Christmas.

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Originally posted by Expert308:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:
The problem with a white Christmas is it’s cold…….until March.

You say that like it's a bad thing!

Yeah, I'm too well insulated for the heat. I don't much care for the snow and ice that usually comes with it here, but I would be ecstatic to never see temps over 60 again.

Maybe pack an extra pair of socks.

And a cap. A cap might come in handy.