Anchorage is getting socked with snow
By RACHEL D'ORO
The Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The snow is already piled so high that drivers cannot see around corners. Homeowners are getting worried their roofs can't handle the load. And snow-removal crews are running up the overtime hours.
Even by Alaska's prodigious, myth-making standards, this is a remarkably snowy winter on the Last Frontier.
In one of the strangest winters across America in many years, Alaska's biggest city has gotten more snow — over 74 inches so far — than it normally receives in an entire winter (68 inches). And there are still four more months of snowy weather ahead. [...]
On the bright side, maybe the polar bears will quit dropping through the ice and drowning. Or is that a bad thing? I just can't keep it straight anymore.
Posted by Terry Oglesby at January 26, 2007 01:58 PMIn other global warming news, the temp according to our car thermometer at 8:00 am was 13 deg (F) here in balmy Baltimore.
Posted by: steevil (Dr Weevil's bro Steve) at January 26, 2007 02:11 PMI'd watch out for polar bears if I were you.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 26, 2007 02:15 PMI told you cousin Al ain't all that bright.
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 26, 2007 02:25 PMThe global warming done got to him, too!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 26, 2007 02:38 PMMaybe before it was too cold to snow alot in Alaska and now that it's warmed up a little and all the melted Alps glaciers have contributed to the extra moisture that it all has to go somewhere so it's snowing more in Alaska and then you'll see that almost-President Gore was right and you'll go boo hoo hoo. And add to the extra moisture.
Posted by: Tree Hugger at January 26, 2007 02:47 PMIt's that whole "butterfly effect" thing--Al Gore sheds a tear, and then pretty soon New York City is inundated with a giant tsunami! DON'T MAKE ALBERT CRY!!
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 26, 2007 02:52 PMMartin Peretz, editor of the New Republic, claims that Al Gore has an "incandescent intelligence."
That undermines my confidence in the magazine and drives me toward compact fluorescents.
He do have effects. And I like Tipper, if not that dry, stilted, socialite daughter, Karenna.
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 26, 2007 02:53 PMAwww--"incandescent"! It makes him sound so much more human, so much less wooden.
Or, actually, so much more like a cartoon character who we know has an idea by the sudden appearance of a light bulb above his head.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at January 26, 2007 03:04 PMAnd what the hell do I have to do with the Alps, Tree Hugger? I've never been there, and I haven't traveled by airplane since 2000. Unlike Al. He's famous.
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 26, 2007 03:05 PMWell, I did go from Baton Rouge to Dallas, but my mother was dying.
Posted by: Janis Gore at January 26, 2007 04:35 PM