This guy: (Whoops...sorry, guess he is on break)
Posted on 11/09/2011 4:40:05 AM PST by Evil Slayer
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - An "epic" storm was bearing down on western Alaska on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said, warning that it could be one of the worst on record for the state.
The storm, moving inland from the Aleutian Islands, was expected to bring hurricane-force winds with gusts up to 100 miles per hour, heavy snowfall, widespread coastal flooding and severe erosion to most of Alaska's west coast, the National Weather Service said.
"This will be an extremely dangerous and life threatening storm of an epic magnitude rarely experienced," the service said in a special warning message.
Nome and the rest of the Seward Peninsula, a section of land that juts out toward Siberia, were expected to be the hardest-hit areas, said Andy Brown, lead forecaster for the National Weather Service in Anchorage.
Powerful storms in the North Pacific and Bering Sea are common this time of year, but this event is unusual because of its trajectory, Brown said.
"It's going very far north," he said.
Officials in Nome issued an evacuation order late on Tuesday for people living along Front Street, a beachside avenue that serves as the finish line for the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race, and for other low-lying areas in town.
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If you move the tigers out of Africa you’d have room for both of them.
Who writes this stuff?
This guy: (Whoops...sorry, guess he is on break)
Have Coke pay for the penguin, polar bear swap.swapped
President Barak Hussein Obama hates Eskimo people!
LOL!
I saw a story yesterday that a member of the Wizard was evacuated for medical problems....so it sounds like the boats are out there.
This could spell the end of the Occupy Nome protest.
Hey! FOX! Send Shep to report from the beach please!
I want to see how the media spins this winter storm from near the Arctic into something about global warming. I guarantee you, they’ll try to do it.
Forecast for Wasilla is cold (surprising) and 4-5 inches of snow in next few days. This storm is not going to be anywhere near us. Just in case I have put all my penguins in the igloo for safe keeping.
LOL!
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