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Post by kaima on Jan 16, 2007 23:36:25 GMT -7
To satisfy the people curious about winter in Alaska, here are a few photos of the house I returned to after a month in Europe. One snowfall was 30" or close to a meter, and added to other snowfalls, I am told there were about 5 feet of snow while I was gone - about 1.5 meters of snow. Then I finish in the next posting with a shot of our local four footed gardener trimming the neighbor's trees... winter gardening demands four foot drive!
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Post by kaima on Jan 17, 2007 0:15:34 GMT -7
This is our four foot drive gardener going from bush to bush in the neighbor's yard. She left her tracks in my yard - all over my yard. In the spring time I will have some pellets to shovel away ... (four-foot drive as opposed to four-wheel drive most of us think of)
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Post by Jaga on Jan 17, 2007 0:46:56 GMT -7
Ron, these are really lovely pictures. The winter looks extremely charming although it looks that you do not have too much of the daylight By the way - the cars looks like they were never used is this a moose? I would not like my Ela to encounter such a big animal in the garden. Do you ever see Northern lights (aurora)? I am not sure I ever saw it in my life. By the way, it is probably still cooler in Idaho than in Anchorage. The temperature in the morning was -24 C (-11F) and afer 5 pm when I was back in IF it was -14 C (7 F).
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Post by kaima on Jan 17, 2007 1:09:00 GMT -7
No, the cars sat the whole month. Yes, that is a moose, a pretty standard sized one, female. Moose kill more people every year in Alaska than bears do, so you are right about keeping Ela away from them! They are about as big as horses. The aurora comes down here fairly often, but not often enough. The area around Fairbanks is much better, much closer to the ring around the magnetic pole that forms the primary display area. It is spectacular and quite varied. www.gedds.alaska.edu/AuroraForecast/No, the cars sat the whole month. Yes, that is a moose, a pretty standard sized one, female. Moose kill more people every year in Alaska than bears do, so you are right about keeping Ela away from them! They are about as big as horses. The aurora comes down here fairly often, but not often enough. The area around Fairbanks is much better, much closer to the ring around the magnetic pole that forms the primary display area. The Aurora is spectacular and quite varied.
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Post by kaima on Jan 17, 2007 1:14:09 GMT -7
Well, I tried to link to the forecast map that shows the ring over Alaska, but it does not come through. Check it out at the link above!
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