Never Waste an Opportunity Dept: the left-leaning Alaska Dispatch News never misses a chance to trash a Republican or conservative (that's not always the same thing, you know).
Today they've gone for a twofer: our Republican Gov. Parnell (running for reelection) and former AK Attorney General Dan Sullivan, who's running against Mark Begich (D-AK) for the U.S. Senate.
I'm sure the Dispatch would like me to link to the stories.
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You Can't Always Get What You Want Dept: the National Weather Service belabors the obvious by pointing out that weather in Alaska depends on where in our 586,000± square miles one lives.
Duh.
Nevertheless, they've published the Alaska Weather and Climate Highlights, June 2014-September 2014. The NWS concludes we have three primary weather zones.
I'm surprised it's that few. We learned a long time ago to take clothing for warm, cool, windy, and wet weather for any one-day or longer drives. There can be sharp differences between sea level and "up in the mountains" elevations, and between coastal vs. inland locations.
Because ya never know!
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We Were Flying Low and Hit Something in the Air* Dept: KTUU Channel 2 reports that a paraglider crashed into trees near the Flattop Mountain trailhead, yesterday.
There were no injuries reported.
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Good Stuff Dept: our friend Old NFO has published a follow-up volume to his first book, "The Grey Man--Vignettes": it's "The Grey Man - Payback". The link I've provided is for the paperback edition, but it's available for Kindle, too.
All I can say is, if you're not reading his books, you're missing out.
* 1,000 internet points to anyone who gets the reference. No fair looking it up on Google, unless you're a youngster. :)
7 comments:
Thank you sir! :-)
You're welcome, sir; I wouldn't say it if it weren't true.
Bloodrock, doing "D.O.A."
Jim wins the intarwebz! That song gave me the creeps in high school ...
Yeah, the first time I heard it I about flipped out.
I was in College then, so I'm just a *bit* older than you....
RE: weather zones...
In AZ, it seems we also have three.
I can't tell you the number of times it was 100+ in the Valley, I drove North to Sedona, and needed to stop at a sporting goods store to buy a jacket! Windy and cold!
DUH!
gfa
Guffaw, I blame global cooling. Or George W. Bush ... or something.
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