My last post I spoke about the coming winter and it really came back to bite me. This weekend... Sunday morning specifically... Fairbanks North Star Borough (we have boroughs here not counties) was thirty one degrees... marking the first below freezing temperature of the season. Oddly enough, though, we are actually two weeks behind than the average time of year that these temperatures begin. It is forecasted that this winter is supposed to be a bit warmer this year, but much more wet, meaning more ice to slip on and more ice fog to dread in the mronings. It is weird to live in such a different community than the Bay Area. Here, winter is talked about all year long, even in the summer, people make comments like "Wow, it's really nice out today, can't believe winter is only 56 days away". They count down the days until the first official day, and no one seems to care that it gets close to fifty or sixty below!!! Well, I guess it's time to pull out the scarves, gloves, snow boots, and the all important shoe spikes so that you don't slip on the ice every five seconds.
P.S. Sorry for any grammatical mistakes Mom.
2 comments:
Probably time to put away the Vans and look for the long johns. Keep the posts coming.
Haha. i can sorta relate, although Missouri is not as cold as Alaska! It is definately much different than home and makes me homesick during the winter. Funny, I guess we were pretty spoiled in CA and we didn't even realize!
People live and die by the weather here and anywhere you go that's what people are talking about. I've even caught myself doing it! Yikes! LOL
Keep up the blogging! I like hearing that someone is colder than we are here!
-Jess
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