No offense to Ohio peeps. Just like the contrast.

Sometimes the daily commute home can be tougher than Polar Expeditions if your not equipped to survive. Privacy Tarps are not required on most Arctic Polar expeditions just a shotgun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNkvASxfEWQ&list=PLA248541C895A47A4

Agreed! In SD we have almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction season. You'd think the people would be pretty used to snow since we're buried so much of the year but it's the same- that first snow and everyone acts like they're taking their first turn driving a rover on Mars. Either they're going 5 mph in a 35 or blasting by at 50. You usually catch up to the latter folks down the road a ways in a snow bank or on top of a fire hydrant.

In Alaska we have four distinct seasons. There's Early Winter, Mid Winter, Late Winter, and Next Winter!

What folks down south call "summer" is in Alaska just the transition from Late Winter to Next Winter. If it falls on a weekend we usually like to grill burgers out on the deck.

EDIT: Except this strange winter, these last couple of weeks in January have been more like summer?

I found an amazing type of tablet called the 'B-ook'. New text can't be uploaded to the screens; but they do come with hundreds of screens. And B-ooks need no batteries, can be thrown around without damage, are a supply of tinder, insulation and paper and cost a few pounds.
What will they think of next?
qjs



Found one odd gap-- my book read had plenty of power, but conflict between turning pages and keeping on gloves-
gloves were
A) too big
B) not conductive

think I might need to starting carrying a stylus for when I need to wear gloves..

doug.. thank you, I think it would be a worthwhile test .. I naturally would have a window open on the lee side of the wind, hence my comment about safety rules... with the pneumatic activated under dash vents in modern cars, I've always wondered how tightly sealed a car becomes without the motor running...anyone familiar with auto ventilation systems?

I do carry a 500 pager paper book in my car- how does that help in this situation?

Sunset in Nebraska is 5:30. Stuck in car from 5:15 to 7:00 PM.
Winter Gloves are even LESS conducive to turning pages than holding a stylus.
wasting a headlamp reading the paper book, or pulling out and trying to hold a flashlight.

I could try to read it using the candle, but, at you say, its flamable.....

please don't go all luddite on me, I have a paper library of a thousand books....

In Flagstaff, AZ, where I formerly resided, we had nine months of winter and three months of hard sledding. There is nothing between Alaska and Flagstaff except a barbed wire fence.

Dagny, my experience with a Heatsheet and fleece sleeping bag was on the near side of miserable. The evaporate just soaked the bag because the Heatsheet kept it in. Terrible. Now, in a car it may be different because you may be sitting up, which helps the "steam" escape. But, lying down, terrible.

Testy interview between a CNN anchor and Atlanta's mayor. With CNN and Weather Channel both based in Atlanta, there has been an unusually personal perspective on the part of reporters.

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/2014/0...re-angry-at-me/


The link below is to an interesting in-depth look at the factors that make Atlanta particularly vulnerable to mass gridlock in any emergency. The reporter notes that this week's experience with barely more than two inches of snow have historical underpinnings in myriad political jurisdictions and past transportation infrastructure decisions as well as failures of leadership this week.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/01/atlanta-snow-storm-102839.html?hp=f2

The Day We Lost Atlanta
How 2 lousy inches of snow paralyzed a metro area of 6 million.

By REBECCA BURNS -- January 29, 2014


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