All week we had tons of snow and awful wind, making it blizzard like conditions. The snow drift out back looks like it is ten feet high now. If you take trash to the dumpster, there is a 3 foot drop off surrounding the dumpster, so you have to throw it from a distance. Plowing is rarely done here, so the roads are unpredictable. Sometimes the walking is fine, and other times I end up stepping in a foot of snow every step. This morning we had snow inside our bedroom from a cracked window. Friday I was walking to work and there was a chest high snow drift in the middle of the road, blocking a lot of people from driving to school. They had to unload kids from the back of the Hondas and then scoot around it and pick the kids back up. It has now been rounded off to a giant hill you can climb or race your machine over.
We've barely had snow all winter, and when it did snow, it was maybe an inch or two. This is very bad for Eskimos who rely on subsistence. Then all of a sudden on Easter, we awoke to a huge blizzard! 30-40 mph winds and thick snow. You could not even see a few feet in front of you. I could not make it to church because the truck could no longer go and no one felt comfortable navigating a 4wheeler in the blizzard. You could not even see the way towards the church in all of the white. We ended up with an eight foot high drift outside out back door. All week we had tons of snow and awful wind, making it blizzard like conditions. The snow drift out back looks like it is ten feet high now. If you take trash to the dumpster, there is a 3 foot drop off surrounding the dumpster, so you have to throw it from a distance. Plowing is rarely done here, so the roads are unpredictable. Sometimes the walking is fine, and other times I end up stepping in a foot of snow every step. This morning we had snow inside our bedroom from a cracked window. Friday I was walking to work and there was a chest high snow drift in the middle of the road, blocking a lot of people from driving to school. They had to unload kids from the back of the Hondas and then scoot around it and pick the kids back up. It has now been rounded off to a giant hill you can climb or race your machine over.
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AuthorI am a Colorado native who moved to Alaska for love and adventure. This journal is going to track my journey. Archives
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