Posted on 01/27/2006 6:22:19 PM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
So clean it off and wait another thirty years to write the next article. Well, maybe thirty one years if global warming isn't the hoax it appears to be.
Wow. How much of the year do you spend in the area? That would be something I would like to see but dont know if I could live in it yr round.
Doesnt BP Arco do stuff in Barrow?
Homer is the end of the road, about 900 air miles south of Barrow.
Eska, you must be somewhere near Eagle sounds like. Beautiful town on the Yukon, was over there a few years ago. In the summer, however.
The ice cap gets kind of lumpy near shore. Farther out it may be smooth as a superhighway, but it piles up when it meets land. Even walking through that can be a chore.
More evidence of global cooling.
It's "global warming", stupid!!
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They send PR types there on "hearts and minds" missions but all of the current major oil development is far to the east of Barrow.
Barrow is a little closer to the Naval Petroleum Reserve if any development ever takes place there.
The two big operators on "the Slope" are BP and Conoco-Phillips. BP acquired Arco years ago although they still use the brand on some service stations.
"Ivus In the Morning!"
He was in Alaska on business. Went to this beer joint. Got drunk. They (my cousins) tossed him out in the snow when it was WAY BELOW ZERO!
He never forgot it.
Talk about a cold shower, then again maybe it was the cold shoulder.
If you fly in to Barrow, there are two gas wells there that I could see in the 90's.
Probably lots of people congregated near them then if they were that hot. (yes, I know what you meant:)
Isn't that what all the intelligentia and MSM have been telling us? They wouldn't be trying to pull one over on us, would they?
(/naivete, /sarc.)
If it is true that there are still functional gas wells in Barrow, I stand corrected. I would not doubt it. Just never saw them while I was there (too busy trying to avoid snow blindness and horny Inupiat females).
As for the "refinery" at the Slope, I believe it was shut down in the mid-80's. As I recall, it was near the ARCO main camp and was used to produce Diesel for well work. They tried to use it as fuel in vehicles but blew up too many engines so they started bringing up real fuel from the refinery in North Pole outside of Fairbanks.
ANYTHING you poured in November would have been frozen until AT LEAST late June, probably mid-July. Remember getting snowed on at the July 4th barbecues just about every year? It was an interesting place to work during my youth but now that I'm no longer young, I'm happy not to be there. Especially with the weather they've been having this past week (-40's and -50's - Global Warming of course...).
Did you see the forecast for Valdez last weekend? 60" of snow in 36 hours. Whew!
We live here year around. Real nice in summer, stays in 80's and the river is kinda everything. Winters are pretty tough. Road closes in Oct and doesn't open until Apr, May but that's the best thing about winter here. Something I like about everyone else locked out. By feb alot of the whites are getting somewhat squirrely. Don't seem to bother natives. Wife and I have taught in several other villages, came here wife as prin, bought a place and plan on spending our summers here down the road. Life is much better in urban alaska, but somehow can't bring ourselves to face locking doors, taking keys out of ignition, or seeing people we don't know. I'm getting as antisocial as all the other nutty whites here, ha.
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