Photo Post - Alaska Vocabulary Lesson

[Wiregeek]

  Car
  Tire
  Clean
   Well Maintained Road
   Safe Bridge
   Bridge (2)
   River
  Photographer
  Safety
  Fan
  Parking Spot
  Soap
  Light Snow Cover
  Telephone Directory

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  Hunting Vehicle
  Interrogation
  Fishing Hole
  Good Weather
  Luxury Transportation
  Clean Street
  Clean Car
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Wiregeek]

The first batch of pictures is from a trip to Beluga, wherein the 'road' was bad gravel, topped by 0-3 inches of ice, topped by 0-3 inches of packed snow, topped by 0-3 inches of water. You cannot tell with any degree of certainty what's coming next, and whether your next turn will result in turning, skidding, or flat-out sliding.

The bridge is, in fact, a bridge. It's a shade over ten feet wide, and the 'safety rails' are a whole ten inches tall.

The second batch is from, in order, the Antique Military vehicles display at the 2010 Alaska Fur Rendezvous, including WireDad, the cat is the Good Cat (she only makes you bleed), the 'blue' snowy pictures are from a fishing trip me and pops made on 3/6/2010, which went splendidly (even if we didn't catch any keepers. I got a 4" rainbow trout, dad got a 6", and the coyote caller failed to generate any coyote).

The last two 'yellow' snow pics are from my commute in this morning. There was 4"-6" of snowfall overnight, and at 5am this morning, there had been enough traffic to make the snow cover on the main roads a variable from 0" to 6", again, with no rhyme or reason. I was highly irritated, as it reduced my speed to 60.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Kurisu]

60?

MPH or KPH?
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DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

[Wiregeek]

mph. The posted speed limit on that chunk of road is 65mph

(96 and 104, respectively)
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Kurisu]

...

...and here I thought Reflex Point got very entertaining when the temperatures went into the negatives...
_____
DEATH is Certain. The hour, Uncertain...

[Rod.H]

I swear I've seen an equivalent bridge down here -in the land of no snow*- just where, escapes me. Hmmm I doubt that I'd be wanting to travel at the posted limit in those conditions, mostly due to the vehicles I have access to not being able to handle those conditions.

*we get snow, just not to the depths and area coverage the Americas make that Northern Hemisphere get.**

**we get rain & hail instead

--Rod.H

[Wiregeek]

Given zero traffic and better road markings, I could have safely travelled the Glenn at 70-80mph. Traction isn't an issue, I have excellent tires and ~8500 lbs of weight on my side. The 60mph was just the fastest that I felt was 'safe' given the traffic/visibility/road marking visibility matrix.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Florin]

Meanwhile right next door in Whitehorse everything's much nicer. Except for everything being covered in ice. Even if you can't see the ice, it's there. Waiting. Of course, if the weather goes bad in Alaska, the Yukon's probably not far behind.
--
If you become a monster to put down a monster you've still got a monster running around at the end of the day and have as such not really solved the whole monster problem at all. 

[Wiregeek]

Ahh, ice. Such a wonderful driving surface, we'll have some of that tonight. The Glenn's gonna be 35-40mph on the way home 8(
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

[Bob Schroeck]

You know, I've very glad it hit 62 Fahrenheit here in New Jersey yesterday, and it's 59 as I type this.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.