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It has been a couple of years since I have been there. I stayed at the only Hotel there and hit the bar a few times and the buffet they have upstairs with Crab Legs, Roast Beast, etc.

There was a bar down in the main district where all the folks working at the fish factories were. Then there was the restaurant bar that was right next door to the grocery store on the flip side of the hotel.

I remember the last time I was there we had a foot of snow in a heartbeat and then it started raining and everything was flooded. I experienced an earthquake there and saw more Eagles than I care to remember. Also, saw the wild horses on the other side of the island.

Crazy place Dutch Harbour....
 
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BuckeyeMac;2108556; said:
You do know that snow is just frozen water right? What happens when you warm up snow? It turns to water. Whoever told you that you don't get wet in snow, hasn't been in snow.
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i am aware of what snow is, just haven't seen much of it in my life.

the fellers said that the snow you can just dust off of you.
the rain on the other hand just soaks into your clothes.
 
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That depends on some other factors. Yes, the cold air is very dry, but if it is a wet, heavy snow, you will be miserable fast unless you're wearing good gear. I can't remember a time when I went skiing or just romping around in the snow and didn't come back cold and wet. Clothes usually went straight into the dryer and I changed into dry clothes. Socks were usually wet, and maybe my bottom most layer would be spared. Everything else was wet, though.
 
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WyoBuck;2108447; said:
19 degrees with some wind. Very chilly here in Kentucky. Y'know, I have never posted this, but I lived in Alaska for 14 years and this is a bit of a rant but , you should know that there is another world of cold that exists out there. It never gets truly cold in the lower 48 comparatively. I lived in Alaska in the 90's and early 2000's. In Fairbanks, I saw temperatures as low as 65-70 below zero, regularly. In 1995 I saw 122 degrees below zero in Bettles. That was with wind chill mind you, but it was absolute hell. Your breath would freeze. Your lungs would freeze. It was so cold that you could feel the moisture in your skin freeze. You could spit on the ground and it would roll like a marble. If you have never had your eyes freeze shut, if you have never seen water crystals hanging in the air, if you have never blown soap bubbles then picked them up of the ground and tossed them to a friend or seen a tree split wide open because the sap froze faster than the tree, or have seen a pot of boiling water thrown in to the air and EVAPORATE, then you really dont know what cold is. I used to ride my bike to work in college and was thankful that my beard would freeze and insulate my face on the way to the large animal research station at UAF. Ive lost part of my ears due to frostbite and was told that I would have lost more if I hadnt been in a shack all day with a milkhouse heater where the temperature never rose to barely above freezing so that blood was actually allowed to gradually begin to flow back in to my ears and warm slowly. I lived in a place where transients would commonly die of esophogeal frostbite becasue they would buy a bottle of booze and take a sip when then alcohol was 20 degrees below zero. I hate it, but I am an absolute expert on cold. And this....aint it. So all of you who want to prostheletize on shitty winter weather, you have no idea how bad it can be. 10 Feet of snow, winters that last 8 months, actual city streets that exsisit only due to frozen rivers in the winter(cool for four wheel slides and snow machines) and dont during the thaw may have made me jaded. Now Fairbanks was dry, I think its called a desert tundra, though, so, maybe I don't know, but Im betting that DubCoff can reminisce and tell you about some really shitty winters in Dutch Harbor too where it was wet and cold, Like, for real. Its all a matter of perspective.
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Why on earth would you live there?

[If you're a female in Alaska looking for a man, the odds are good, but the goods are odd :lol:]

Nutriaitch;2108549; said:
they told me and my dad they were knocking off, and couldn't work in that.
aid they would much prefer doing what they do during a blizzard than in the conditions we had that day.
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I don't know about a blizzard, but I mostly agree with that. I would absolutely rather be in the snow at 20 degrees with minimal wind rather than rain at 40 degrees with wind. The rain soaks through so much more quickly.
 
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buckeyebri;2108679; said:
It has been a couple of years since I have been there. I stayed at the only Hotel there and hit the bar a few times and the buffet they have upstairs with Crab Legs, Roast Beast, etc.

There was a bar down in the main district where all the folks working at the fish factories were. Then there was the restaurant bar that was right next door to the grocery store on the flip side of the hotel.

I remember the last time I was there we had a foot of snow in a heartbeat and then it started raining and everything was flooded. I experienced an earthquake there and saw more Eagles than I care to remember. Also, saw the wild horses on the other side of the island.

Crazy place Dutch Harbour....
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It is indeed, what were you doing there? I stopped there a few times en route to m job on Shemya. landing there was a nightmare, the wind was always blowing our 20 seat egg beater every which way. I haven't been there since 1996. The Elbow room was the main hang out at the time. they had a bell, if you rang it you had to buy a round for the house. God help you if you didn't.
 
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WyoBuck;2108447; said:
19 degrees with some wind. Very chilly here in Kentucky. Y'know, I have never posted this, but I lived in Alaska for 14 years and this is a bit of a rant but , you should know that there is another world of cold that exists out there. It never gets truly cold in the lower 48 comparatively. I lived in Alaska in the 90's and early 2000's. In Fairbanks, I saw temperatures as low as 65-70 below zero, regularly. In 1995 I saw 122 degrees below zero in Bettles. That was with wind chill mind you, but it was absolute hell. Your breath would freeze. Your lungs would freeze. It was so cold that you could feel the moisture in your skin freeze. You could spit on the ground and it would roll like a marble. If you have never had your eyes freeze shut, if you have never seen water crystals hanging in the air, if you have never blown soap bubbles then picked them up of the ground and tossed them to a friend or seen a tree split wide open because the sap froze faster than the tree, or have seen a pot of boiling water thrown in to the air and EVAPORATE, then you really dont know what cold is. I used to ride my bike to work in college and was thankful that my beard would freeze and insulate my face on the way to the large animal research station at UAF. Ive lost part of my ears due to frostbite and was told that I would have lost more if I hadnt been in a shack all day with a milkhouse heater where the temperature never rose to barely above freezing so that blood was actually allowed to gradually begin to flow back in to my ears and warm slowly. I lived in a place where transients would commonly die of esophogeal frostbite becasue they would buy a bottle of booze and take a sip when then alcohol was 20 degrees below zero. I hate it, but I am an absolute expert on cold. And this....aint it. So all of you who want to prostheletize on [Mark May]ty winter weather, you have no idea how bad it can be. 10 Feet of snow, winters that last 8 months, actual city streets that exsisit only due to frozen rivers in the winter(cool for four wheel slides and snow machines) and dont during the thaw may have made me jaded. Now Fairbanks was dry, I think its called a desert tundra, though, so, maybe I don't know, but Im betting that DubCoff can reminisce and tell you about some really [Mark May]ty winters in Dutch Harbor too where it was wet and cold, Like, for real. Its all a matter of perspective.
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I've been in some pretty intense cold in the interior but the worst was out in the Aleutians where it would hover right around the freezing mark but the rain/snow would come down with such intensity and the wind would blow near hurricane force that it's like nothing you've experienced.
 
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DubCoffman62;2108741; said:
I've been in some pretty intense cold in the interior but the worst was out in the Aleutians where it would hover right around the freezing mark but the rain/snow would come down with such intensity and the wind would blow near hurricane force that it's like nothing you've experienced.
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I never had any reason to go out to the Aleutians, been basically everywhere else though. Kotzebue was Just ridiculous. Houses completely buried in snow. Unbelievably cold and dark too. I lived In southeast, Ketchikan from 87 to 94 and and we would get the hurricane force winds, but it just never got that cold. I think the coldest that I can remember was right at freezing for a few days every year, but it never stayed like that. It just rained all of the time. I believe the average per year was something like 120" and the record was near 150"
 
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BuckeyeMac;2108556; said:
You do know that snow is just frozen water right? What happens when you warm up snow? It turns to water. Whoever told you that you don't get wet in snow, hasn't been in snow.
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I've stayed pretty fucking dry despite working outside for 10-15 hrs during a 3-4" day plenty of times. Just depends on the type of snow. Cold Feb snows usually were pretty dry. If it stayed cold, my boots wouldn't even get wet on the outside. So whoever told you being out in snow = being wet, has been in snow maybe one time. Maybe.
 
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BUCKYLE;2108830; said:
I've stayed pretty fucking dry despite working outside for 10-15 hrs during a 3-4" day plenty of times. Just depends on the type of snow. Cold Feb snows usually were pretty dry. If it stayed cold, my boots wouldn't even get wet on the outside. So whoever told you being out in snow = being wet, has been in snow maybe one time. Maybe.
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whoever told Mac that snow was wet lived in the crappy ice belt.

The last 18 months have been a welcome but rare break from the winter mix that dominates I 70 residents
I don't know about a blizzard, but I mostly agree with that. I would absolutely rather be in the snow at 20 degrees with minimal wind rather than rain at 40 degrees with wind. The rain soaks through so much more quickly.
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Which is why I miss SW Michigan weather. It is almost identical in summer, but colder enough in winter that nature primarily provides lake effect powder instead of nasty slush.
 
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WyoBuck;2108447; said:
So all of you who want to prostheletize on shitty winter weather, you have no idea how bad it can be. 10 Feet of snow, winters that last 8 months, actual city streets that exsisit only due to frozen rivers in the winter(cool for four wheel slides and snow machines) and dont during the thaw may have made me jaded. Now Fairbanks was dry, I think its called a desert tundra, though, so, maybe I don't know, but Im betting that DubCoff can reminisce and tell you about some really shitty winters in Dutch Harbor too where it was wet and cold, Like, for real. Its all a matter of perspective.
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Papa Cincibuck was stationed on Adak and Attu as a spotter for a Coast Artillery Battalion. Damn near lost his life while pulling guard duty during a white out. Many of his stories centered around the making and partaking of raisin jack. His favorite story was of the purchase of parka's and pants from the Aluetes to keep the GIs warm. Worked fine outdoors, but when brought into the quonset huts the residents quickly discovered the main ingredient in the Aluete tanning process...
 
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