Breezy

Last week's trip to Dutch harbor didn't happen, unfortunately. After spending several hours at the airport waiting, the flight was cancelled due to weather. So, Friday morning, I find myself up at Deadhorse (Prudhoe Bay) instead.

Temperatures ranged from -30 to -25 and the wind was steady at around 25mph with frequent gusts well beyond that. I was to go up early, overnight and come home on the following evening's flight.

Again, due to weather, we were almost two hours late departing from Anchorage and I didn't get home until Sunday afternoon.

Sometimes, in our modern world we forget just how fearsome nature can be and that for all of our technology, we're not really in charge. This image doesn't really convey the intensity of the cold, but I'm posting it because the flag shows how windy it was.

Preview of Coming Attractions

Back after a short hiatus courtesy of modem and network issues. You never realize how much we have com to depend on the internet until you don't have it anymore.

More of those mad-cap main-stream media antics!!!  I suspect it's those layers of editors & fact checkers at work again...

 

Alas much sadder, rest in peace Neil Armstrong.

Fast food arches? Perhaps in neolithic times. This is a whalebone arch, taken in Barrow, Tuesday, (4/6/10)looking out on the Chukchi Sea.