Not If, But When

You want to know what it's like to live in Alaska? Here's an excellent summation.

Excerpt:

If you're hiking the Appalachian Trail, it's hard to die. Up here, it's easy. The land is not tame, and though we can sit in the city and ignore the earthquakes under our feet, the volcanoes around us, the glaciers that once ground the land down and still can, cough through the smoke of forest fires and smugly note we're above the danger point for most tsunamis, bitch about road closures from avalanches of snow or freeze-thaw loosened rock... It is only our ignorance, self-inflicted, that lets us think we are safe from nature.

Go read one of our undiscovered writers - Miss D, the oft-mentioned friend of Peter, Bayou Renaissance Man.