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Last day of summer first day of snow


Ed Cesnalis

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Wimps! Valdez, AK averages 400" per year. In Fairbanks I have seen it be minus 40F or colder 24/7 for 3 weeks straight, warm up and snow for a week then do it again. Sun is up for 3.5 hours barely skimming above the southern mountains. Then there is the ice fog and you can't see it at all.

 

But, maybe I'm the wimp. I left after 42 winters.

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Valdez does get a lot of snow. I landed there once in a C-130.

 

Snow banks so high and close I could not exit the runway.

 

We off loaded our people and equipment on the runway then BACKED up the length of the runway for the subsequent take off. Too narrow to even turn around on the runway.

 

Those were the good old days.

 

John, I bet you have a lot of good stories to tell.

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John, I bet you have a lot of good stories to tell.

 

We all have good stories to tell, and some we probably don't want to tell!

 

Hi John,

 

That's why all the smart people live much further south. :)

 

Well, I did eventually move but don't know if that was smart or not. For sure you don't have to shovel rain.

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