Jan 16 2009
in which the weather continues to be annoying
Yeah, so, today the temperature was hovering around fifty degrees. Yes, fifty above. In Alaska. In January. I don’t really have to tell you how weird this is, right? What’s even more fun is that it’s been ridiculously windy as well, so between that and roads that are either slick with ice and water or practically flooded, schools aside from UAA (hardly anybody has Friday classes anyway) closed today. Again. Yes, that’s three days in a row of school closures for ice. In Alaska. I was listening to the radio this evening and happened to be on K-LOVE, a Christian station based out of California or Nebraska or something (not local, in other words), and they specifically mentioned that parts of Alaska are in need of colder weather because this thaw has come up way too suddenly and people are getting burst pipes and other fun things.
Yep. The announcer asked people to pray that Alaska would get colder weather.
It just doesn’t get a lot odder than that, does it? (Well, sure, it does, but…whatever.)
Oh. And in more odd weather things? Driving home today I saw a giant pine tree in someone’s hard that had been felled by the wind—it’s currently sort of smashed through their fence and sticking out into the road. And in midtown I passed a parking lot that was half-filled with the biggest, deepest puddle I’ve ever seen—like, this thing practically had white-caps from the wind. (Apparently Polka’s stupid question wasn’t quite so stupid after all: yes, puddles get waves. If they’re stupidly large.)
(Images are from Anchorage Daily News, where you can find more pictures of our weird, weird weather.)
