"Its 600 residents endure temperatures that drop to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit in the winter. Polar bear sightings are common. Water is scarce. There's no plumbing in most homes; ice is harvested from lakes in microwave-size blocks and melted in buckets. No roads connect Shishmaref to the outside world."
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Saw one of these “fine” citizens on Alaska Highhway Patrol, drunk as a hant and cussin everyone.
Betn they are all on the dole.
Morris says the changes in Shishmaref — the melting sea ice, the disappearing seals and polar bears, the crumbling coastline — are beyond the village’s control
Polar bear sightings are common. HMMMMMMMMMM? Reads suspiciously like the have it both ways society. There’s another “little” issue in there as well, the supply of dried seal meat, by the house. How does that square with the disappearing seals Huh?