Following more than 100 inches (2.65 meters, for those of the Napoleonic Persuasion) of snowfall over the past couple weeks, here’s the response:
“We don’t need a reason to expect a lot of snow; it’s Alaska. We put up with all kinds of things that most of the rest of the country doesn’t, and honestly, most of us like it that way.”
No mention of Global Warming Climate Cooling Change©, of course.
Winter: when “climate” turns back into “weather”.
We’ve had about 1 inch of snow total all season so far. The least amount since we moved here 17 years ago. Been a lot of rain this season though. WTF good is a cold assed winter if there is no snow? May as well move back to Florida.
One thing I learned from my year in Alaska (courtesy of my crazy Uncle Sam) was that there’s one thing Alaskans absolutely DO NOT put up with: folks from other parts telling them how it’s done “outside.”
As far as snow goes, I’ve shoveled and schlepped in enough of it to last a lifetime. I take the wife to visit snow a couple times a year, and that’s plenty.
Your picture is why I’m glad God invented Arizona.
i guess nobody’s ever been to Grand Forks (or, G-d help us Minot)
Unfortunately Alaskans have foisted upon the rest of us folks and crooked schemes like the Murkowskis, the spending for the bridge to no where and such.
It’s been a light snow year in the northeast. I don’t have to shovel rain.
If it’s going to be cold then by God there needs to be snow on the ground. If nothing else the snow covers up the ugly dead plants & bare trees.
Spent two winters in Anchorage back in the Early-60’s (the night I arrived was the coldest of my time there – 12 below, and snowing). It was interesting – couldn’t wait until issued that “winter gear”.
They only mention climate change when they think they have a
‘receptive audience’ !
I actually heard the response of some ‘climate change person’ when
someone in the audience tried to corner him with – ‘the temperatures
in the last X# of years show the the climate IS NOT warming ! How can you
say that is IS WARMING ?
The response was priceless –
Paraphrased – The climate is warming BUT the low temperatures are
hiding that fact !!!!!!!!!!
You cannot make this stuff up and there is NO REASONING with a mind
that even pretends to think like that !
Whole thing is the biggest hoax ever foisted on the human race !!
Fun fact: way back in’82 when I was a young kid that lived in Anchorage, I had the family responsibility to shovel the driveway (ye olde “building character” moment). When the first Alaska State Permanent Fund check arrived, I hounded my parents and they allowed me to spend a portion of the money. I bought myself a brand new huge Honda snowblower (seriously, it was as large as I was and I could just barely control it) to make my life better. Best decision of my young life. Because then I figured out I could also make money off my neighbors by clearing their driveways after I did mine in a fraction of the time it took with the mark 1 shovel. When we moved away a few years later, I sold the snowblower for nearly the same amount I paid for it.
JQ: Agreed with you on Murkowski, but the “Bridge to Nowhere” reporting in the press was completely inaccurate. Agreed it became a boondoggle and was rightly cancelled (sort-of), but the facts behind the Ketchikan bridge was not accurate in any way. The press never reported that the Ketchikan bridge was promised by the Feds back in the ’60’s when they forced an (unpopular) location for the airport at Gravina island, instead of on the island we all lived on. There was a proposal to put the airport on our island, but the Feds insisted it needed to be on the other island for various reasons, and promised funding for a bridge to help overcome the objections. The bridge never happened, so we’ve had a ferry sailing back and forth between the islands every 30 minutes since the airport opened in the 70’s, burning oil and generating CO2 every minute of the day. Government planning at its finest.
A couple of days ago a meteor the size of 2.65 under-counter washing machines created a blazing fireball over Berlin, Germany, where they laughably said it was about 1.0 metres across.
My paternal grandparents, native Iowans, went to California on their honeymoon in the late 1920s. My grandfather decided he liked the weather and hated shoveling snow, so they moved there. Somewhat inexplicably, they settled in Placerville, in the Sierra foothills.
It was common, at least at the time, for houses in the area to have walk-out doors (with no balcony, deck, etc) on the second floor, so they could get out when there was a lot of snow.
I also recall reading bits in Stephen Ambrose’s “Nothing Like It in the World,” about the building of the Transcontinental RR, about workers in the Sierra during the winter ‘commuting’ to the railway tunnels they were digging through tunnels made in the snow.
“the Last Frontiersman” is well worth reading. It’s about Heimo Korth, one of the last folks to trap out in the wilderness during the winter. Fascinating story.
JQ