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Alaska during the solstice
December 24, 2018, 10:31 AM
2000Z-71Alaska during the solstice
Kind of a cool series of photos in the Anchorage paper of what it looks like up here this time of year. The long nights and short days definitely take some getting used to, but it does provide for some incredible beauty.
https://www.adn.com/visual/pho...n-bring-magic-light/
My daughter can deflate your daughter's soccer ball. December 24, 2018, 10:36 AM
RHINOWSOBeautiful Country up there. Only been once, would like to take another trip someday.
December 24, 2018, 11:08 AM
OutnumberedBeautiful pictures, thanks for sharing! I really hope to visit Alaska someday.
December 24, 2018, 11:23 AM
tatortoddNice pics.
Wait until you experience hoarfrost (freezing fog and the water molecules freeze to all surfaces like iron filings on a magnet).
Find a high window in the hospital with a great view of the city. You won’t be disappointed. IMO, the most beautiful sight in Anchorage’s winter.
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. December 24, 2018, 11:49 AM
limblessbiffYeah I don’t miss that part. When it’s bright enough to read a book outside at midnight, there is always some asshole playing with a basketball a few doors down, and you’d be surprised at how loud that really is. And in the winter when it’s dark all day it’s just depressing
December 24, 2018, 01:44 PM
flashguyNice pics. I'm glad I don't live there, though, because my birthday would be really gloomy (I'm a Winter Solstice kid).
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth December 24, 2018, 01:50 PM
Rey HRHIt looks nice. I like cool but I'm not a snow kind of guy.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
December 24, 2018, 03:11 PM
newmexicanquote:
Originally posted by tatortodd:
Nice pics.
Wait until you experience hoarfrost (freezing fog and the water molecules freeze to all surfaces like iron filings on a magnet).
Find a high window in the hospital with a great view of the city. You won’t be disappointed. IMO, the most beautiful sight in Anchorage’s winter.
We got a lot of that, we also just ha da cold snap that got to -27 while anchorage was 25 degrees. In -27, we were getting ice inside the house around the edges of the doors and my hand would stick to the door know when I touched it.
December 24, 2018, 04:02 PM
tatortoddquote:
Originally posted by limblessbiff:
And in the winter when it’s dark all day it’s just depressing
Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity
DISCLAIMER: These are the author's own personal views and do not represent the views of the author's employer. December 24, 2018, 04:39 PM
armoredThe first picture of Anchorage, with the full moon, looks like a tsunami rolling in.
December 24, 2018, 08:16 PM
Sunset_VaI view the Fairbanks Daily News Miner's Artic Cam.
http://www.newsminer.com/arctic_cam/ Right now its -15°.
On my trip to Alaska in 2006, I stood in front of the News Miners Office, and the folks back home saw me, while I talked to them via cellphone.
All that area had a major overhaul several years back, it looks nothing like it did back then.
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December 24, 2018, 10:55 PM
IcabodWhen we lived in Fairbanks we’d joke “Look! The sun is up! Darn, missed it.”
Then was the morning I heard on the radio, “It’s 57 degrees before zero. Who the hell cares what the wind chill is!”
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