Alaska shows on TV

[Tyrannis]

PM me, I dare you. I'm done with you in this thread. Sorry Rogwar, the ignorance of this one strikes yet again.

i clearly proved your logic wrong, but somehow i remain the "ignorant" one? your logic is even more flawed than it was before 


but yes, i'll end the argument now too, pointless to argue with someone who will allways think they are right even when they get proved wrong.

[Selino631]

about the Northern Lights, when the heck am i gonna see it? I've been up here about 2 months now in Fairbanks and I still havnt seen it yet.

[Melvin]

about the Northern Lights, when the heck am i gonna see it? I've been up here about 2 months now in Fairbanks and I still havnt seen it yet.

Used to see them a lot up here in Michigan (usually in the winter).

One of the most fantastic displays I ever saw occurred years ago when my Wife and I were just dating.

I was sneaking from her house to my car which I had parked about a half-mile down the road. (Her parents hated me and forbade us from seeing one another.)

I was freezing my arse off, as I wasn't exactly "dressed" for the weather. When, I looked up to see the Northern Lights.

It appeared as if they originated right over my head and covered most of the sky. I had to stop on a few occasions because I could swear that I could HEAR them as the swirled in the sky above me.

It was a truly awesome sight.

<S> Melvin

[TOMCAT21]

patience, selino..if you wait they will appear.

[greens]

Alaska has the most scary watermelon stories i swear, and they are believable too. believable enough for some dumbarse wannabe hollywooder director to make a foolish movie lol. although there are legit "shamans" I have seen one.
Back on track the airlines Hageland aviation services was and still is the best and safest airlines ever. one of the best pilots ever "tweeto".

[EskimoJoe]

Back on track.

I've never been to Alaska, but all my friends and family who have say it is a great place.

I heard that much of the southern panhandle is classified as a "rainforest". Is this true?

My uncle's buddy had a camp on some remote lake. (North of Talkeetna, I believe.) They would tell stories of the days when they would fly in and have to kill several "nuisance" black bear.

When I asked  them what they did with them, the answer was "Dragged 'em off for the grizzlies to eat."

They also said that the bugs were horrible, but it was cool to occasionally hear the Air Force jets going supersonic.

<S> Melvin.

Talkeetna is a nice place to visit every now and again. Couple hours' drive from where I live. Can still hear the jets, sometimes even see them if you're lucky.

Yes, I think that parts of the panhandle is classified as a rainforest. Technically parts of Alaska can be classified as a desert too. The difference being Arizona is very hot and very dry, while parts of Alaska = very cold and very dry. Its a very interesting, incredibly beautiful place to live. Palmer (where I'm at) is basically a NASA windtunnel 

[greens]

Where i live in Alaska its ugly as fk!! i wanna live where tyrannis lives 

[Tyrannis]

Where i live in Alaska its ugly as fk!! i wanna live where tyrannis lives 

in ohio where there is a bunch of trees and farms and horses and cows and cranky neighbors...?

[EskimoJoe]

in ohio where there is a bunch of trees and farms and horses and cows and cranky neighbors...?

Come live in Alaska for 10 years. I'm sure after your first you'd go back.

[Tyrannis]

Come live in Alaska for 10 years. I'm sure after your first you'd go back.

actually in all honesty, ive been playing with the idea of moving to alaska, and trying to get a job working for one of the oil companies down there.

yes i know harsh conditions, but those men get paid WELL.

im the type of person who loves the cold. im usually the only one walking around town during the winter while everyone else is huddled under there blankets.

[eagl]

im the type of person who loves the cold. im usually the only one walking around town during the winter while everyone else is huddled under there blankets.

How cold have you really been, on a day to day basis?  I've been to Alaska twice, and the second time it was so cold nobody ever shut off their cars unless they were in an insulated garage, because they wouldn't be able to get them running again.  In the southern 49 you can get in a lot of trouble for leaving your car running, but that week I think just about every car in every parking lot was left with the engine running.  I think the ambient air temperature during the day was -10F and fortunately the wind was light, so the wind chill was merely -30.

My wife worked at a hospital that had 3 recent weather deaths.  Some lady parked in the staff parking lot and didn't have a passkey to get in the door, and she froze to death before she got to the front door.  A patient wandered out of a locked door and he froze to death before he could walk a few hundred feet to another door.  And someone else slipped and fell into some bushes near the hospital, and couldn't get up from the ice and bundled clothing, and froze to death lying there in the bushes outside the hospital.  And all that happened in a place that was actually alert for these sorts of incidents...  They died before the routine walkarounds came by.

[thndregg]

Where i live in Alaska its ugly as fk!!

Greens, I will agree with you in a way. My dad's geology job put our family out at a mining camp known as Nyac, out near Bethel, during the summer of 1982. Groceries & supplies came in via C130 Hercules. Fishing was awesome. Bears were everywhere. Fresh-picked blueberries for pancakes in the morning was really good. But, as a nine-year old going from living in civilization in the lower 48 to living in someplace so isolated, it was very upsetting to say the least.

[greens]

In Alaska it all depends on where you live.

[greens]

[greens]

And back on track this is a couple caravans owned by Hageland aviation.