Ice on the Bering Sea: Oil Ship Headed for Nome (Photo taken from the U.S. Coastguard blog)
Road in Valdez, AK (Photo taken by an Anchorage resident)
A Home in Cordova, AK (Photo by Erin Cooper)
A Clear View of Mount Redoubt from Our Place
Last weekend the temps were bitter on the peninsula. We woke up on Saturday morning to temps of -24 without windchill. Outdoor activities we're nonexistent for us over the weekend. Instead we spent some time with our co-worker, Ken Felchle and his dog, Attie (the one we took care of this past summer). It would have been nice to be outside, but it was also nice to lay back and relax.
As many of you probably heard on the national news, certain areas of Alaska are really getting pounded. The Bering Sea was freezing up so that oil on ships could not get to Nome. Fortunately, they brought in ice breaker ships to free the ships carrying the oil from the frozen ice. In some areas the ice was up to 5 feet thick (pictured above). Cordova and Valdez, two towns northeast of us on Prince William Sound, have been hit hard with the snow. They have 15+ feet of snow so far this winter. Two of the above pictures, taken by people in the area, show the snow build up. They are telling parents to warn their children about jumping into snow banks. There is a concern they may not be able to get out.
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