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Crazy Alaskans...

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    Crazy Alaskans...

    Here's some pictures from our trip out to the Chatanika Lodge for "Chatanika Days". They've got an outhouse race, pool tournament, snowmachine (mobile) tug of war, a bunch of food and alchohol. I made the trophies for this years competitions. This is the first time I've been there. It was fun... Interesting...

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    This is the "Icescraper" in Fox, Alaska.

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    :p The front page in the Daily Newsminer had a picture of it COLLAPSED!
    hahah...

    Here's the article...

    http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2763420,00.html#

    When the Lowe's store had their grand opening, they had to buy a bunch of materials from Home Depot so their store would be fully stocked for opening day... haha

    Yeah... Small town...
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    hehe, thats crazy, I guess they have nothing else to do up there...

    But check this out...

    Daylight times
    Winter Solstice - 24hrs of darkness above arctic circle, 18-20hrs of darkness for most of the state...

    Spring and Fall equinoxes - days and nights are equally 12 hours long

    Summer Solstice - 18-24 hours of sunlight
    TurismoDreamin, Mar 15, 2005
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    one word scary. yeah thats all I got for that one
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    I was up in Fairbanks for a few weeks - all I gotta say is wow. Nothing like watchin the sun rise/set and NOT cross directly over head. LOL It was really wierd.
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    Kinda like a perma drunk sweet
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    Yeah Vortex, I've been here for 4 years, last year I was still adjusting to it... I'm calibrated for this region now. I think I could slip back into the east coast rhythm with a balanced day and night easily... and willingly. :)
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    hehe i've lived in almost every timezone in the US - adjustment is my middle name. LOL
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    haha yeah now that ya mention it. :)
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    I was up there for like a year when I was six
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    There's a lot of people from Colorado, Montana, Texas and Maryland up here...
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    dood that is really scary lol damn ppl need to get a life man lol...... but I guess it's all good fun.... they also get paid $2,000 a year for nothing!!! damn I think I'm moving there lol jk..I'm tropical I'd never survive there lol
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    Hah! It's not quite $2,000 a year. It was for one or two years. Last year it was $919.84.
    Still free money. :) It's based on an average of oil revenues from the past few years. We got hit hard with the war and stock market...

    http://www.pfd.state.ak.us/

    The site will tell you alot about the Permanent Fund Dividend.

    Yeah, it's cold up here. You probably wouldn't like -60 below zero and 20 hours of darkness a day. BUT, summers up here are awesome, up to 24 hours sunlight, it's warm, and so much stuff to do outdoors.
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