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21 Days North of the Arctic Circle

Re: Today's pictures

The Wildlife have all split! And they left early, so likely a serious winter. The Caribou should be about halfway thru Canada by now. The Ducks and geese are in the south too.
I like seeing the pictures of Nome. A mechanic that I worked with in Fairbanks and on the slope for some years, was from there and grew up there. His name was Homer, and we called him the "Gnome from Homer" when actually he was "Homer from Nome". He related some interesting stories about operating the Power Plant there in Nome, and scary descriptions of seeing mosquitoes that looked like smoke coming out of the ground!
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You have a nice ST4 too. I know a bit about that model.
 
Well,.... there are some unhappy campers on the slope tonight. About 3 plane loads of folks didn't get to go home, and their replacements are sitting in the airport back 700 miles to the south also dissappointed because their flights didn't fly. The camera just doesn't do justice to the exhilarating storms we get. My little office trailer has been rocking and ratteling all day!
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I tried a few of the various "Sport" and low light settings but for some reason the blowing snow just doesn't show up very well?
 
NO, Too Cool will be in another month or so, when it gets down to 30 to 50 below, and starts blowing. The guys get "biffed" because safety won't let them go out and work!
These first pictures are of the courtyard created by my office trailer and 2 others, so it's surrounded on 3 sides and still pretty nasty. I experimented with every setting to no avail.
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closely resembals the storms we get here in nome with no trees to break the wind once it starts blowing it will roar and it can go from dead calm to that in a half hour when on a snowmobile even if you find your way home you still chance frost bite makes my case for the snowtrac for travel between comunitys and hunting nice to be in looking out
 
These next pictures are of the brisk little jaunt I have to make to go between my office trailer and the Camp, Process Area, Chow Hall, Bathroom,.... I've made it about 7 times today. Hold on to your hat!! At one of the Stairwell entrances to the camp there is a wind that wants to pull your hat off right as you reach the top of the stairs. It sucks your hat straight up 2 stories, over the roof of that wing of the camp and deposits your hat in the next court yard over!
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I have not been to Nome, but I have been to Kotzebue, Barrow, Nuicsut, and a bunch of central alaska, and an educated guess would say that you get weather that is every bit as nasty as they do here on the slope. It's just "NORMAL" for Alaskans. Well I've put in my 12 hours, off to the chow hall, and to work out in the Gym, let's see it was Steak last night I wonder what we'll get tonight, probably Pizza!
 
GOOOD Morning Snow Cat People!! Our Arctic Blow has been up-graded to a full blown Blizzard, 30 to 40 MPH winds. We've already read a 59 MPH Gust this morning. It has wiped the snow off some spots right down to bare ground, other areas have drifts of substantial size. Probably NO flights today. Prudhoe Bay sits right on the edge of the Beaufort Sea. The scale that they used to rate hurricane strengths and high winds is called,... the Beaufort Scale... Both named after the same Captian. An old "T" shirt from earlier days on the 'Slope' reads: PRUDHOE BAY WIND FESTIVAL, JAN 1 THRU DEC 31...
Theres another saying in the Oil Industry: "If it's a nasty, hostile, environment then there's likely to be Oil there!" BAD Place #1: The North Sea, Bad Place # 2 The North Slope, followed by various deserts and some nasty jungles...
 
after a 12 month deployment to iraq i do agree its cold here but i can work around that there is no way to get away from 130 degree heat don't know how some one can live there i was stationed on the persion gulf and remembered welding at night 115 degrees and sweating so badly uder the hood i couldn't see also when the fog rold in our vehicles would sweat.
 
Lyndon,when you get back home I need some you to look at my bombi when you get time.
Jim
 
Great thread- I can't believe I haven't read this till now. It sure brings back old memories, as I was incarcerated at Milne Point for the month of January back in about '92. I had it easy though, manning the medical clinic- I think I saw only 3 patients the entire month. I spent a lot of time preparing for the "big one", reading and eating way too much (the food was incredible!). I went for a walk one evening at -44* with a wind chill of -85*. As we say here in Alaska- it was a tad nippy. Thanks again.
 
Great pics and info on the Slope..I too served my time, 1970- 2002..Worked for many companies, mostly CATCO, driving Rolligons, here, there and everywhere..Looks like Crowley has some competition, now that Peak has had some rigs built...Don't need the slope and the cold anymore!! What is going on at Badami these days, was pretty much shut down, when I left, although the camp was open...Also a bunch of work at Pt. Tompson...
 
Re: PHASE III

Happy New Year! it's -10 to -20 out, Ambient temp that is, with 30 to 50 MPH winds and windchills into the -55 range. This is a true Phase 3 condition. All work is stopped, no permits issued, and you can't leave the camp or drive around. But our 2 big 30,000 HP GE Turbines are still running and we are still pumping about 25,000 to 30,000 Bbls of oil.

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Looking out the window of my room at the camp:
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Some Leakage around an entry door.
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Looking out the front of the Camp:
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The roughly 300 people trapped here will: Watch TV, Play on computers, go thru boring safety training, eat, play pool,... but the "UP-SIDE" is that we all get paid!
 
The parking lot & the plant:
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Just barely visable in front of the Tanker is a Road Grader, just behind that is my office.
 
Re: PHASE II

We've been down graded to "Phase 2", "Convoy Only".
This is the west side of camp where the drifting was the worst. Notice the cords? Not hangind exactly straight? Still blowing a bit.
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Things are drifted in pretty good. We'll be 'digging-out' for a couple of days. We'll be 'Operational' in a day, but our 2 laoders, 2 snow blowers, and grader and dozer, will be working 24/7 for a week to actually clean up the road system and 15 "Pads". It's about 30 + miles of roads and each of the pads is between 2 to 6 football fields in size.
One can just faintly pick out the square stack of one of our 20 Meggawatt turbines in one of the pictures.
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The History Channel was running an all day marathon of the show ICE ROAD TRUCKER and I had it tuned in for a while. My wife asked me why I was watching it and I pulled up this thread to show her your photos. From what I can tell, the truckers who run the 'ice road' have it pretty good because they stay off the roads when the weather like these photos hits.

Thanks for the continual updates, its certainly an interesting thing to see, even if we rarely have anything to contribute.
 
The is the 'East Side' of the Camp and Plant. It's less windy as is evident from the cords. So which truck is a blue truck? White?, Red?
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ANS: Almost all the trucks are blue, except the Box Trucks, they are mostly white.
I obviously have too much time on my hands,.. been thinking of initiating an new thread: Kristi Jokes or maybe Kristi Banter, maybe sell squares on a 'foot ball' type lottery to see when it reaches 10,000 "views"!
 
Lyndon said:
The is the 'East Side' of the Camp and Plant. It's less windy as is evident from the cords. So which truck is a blue truck? White?, Red?
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ANS: Almost all the trucks are blue, except the Box Trucks, they are mostly white.
I obviously have too much time on my hands,.. been thinking of initiating an new thread: Kristi Jokes or maybe Kristi Banter, maybe sell squares on a 'foot ball' type lottery to see when it reaches 10,000 "views"!
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the krusty jokes are uplifting and big al's come backs can be just as good but you have to congradulate some one who under takes a restoration of a rig that is so rare.
 
Having owned a Kristi myself I can definatively state that taking on the restoration of one of these is a much greater challenge than a Snow Trac, Bombardier, or Tucker. There's NO Parts source! AND Big Al's 'Retorts' are worth there weight in gold!
 
Lyndon said:
Having owned a Kristi myself I can definatively state that taking on the restoration of one of these is a much greater challenge than a Snow Trac, Bombardier, or Tucker. There's NO Parts source! AND Big Al's 'Retorts' are worth there weight in gold!
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you used to own a kristi what happened got drunk and took one home wwhat did you name her moped a whole lot of fun to ride till your frindes see you .
 
dds said:
you used to own a kristi what happened got drunk and took one home wwhat did you name her moped a whole lot of fun to ride till your frindes see you .
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That's about right. Driving a Krusty is just like sleeping with a fat chick or riding a moped. It's all fun till your friends find out about it.
 
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nutten like a good krusty joke
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Go ahead guys .... Laugh it up ... You have all been added to my "Let them walk" list when you need to be saved by my trusty old Kristi KT7 .

I have a bar in the back and guess who ain't getting no free drinks ?????
Not so funny now ...huh.....
You can also forget about the hotdogs too !

Think I am kidding ???It all fits in this nice little compartment in the last picture !!!

Now the only laughter seems to be coming from me:yum::yum:
 

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hey Al i like your iv coms system is that part of the kisty or was that something you did to pimp your krusty i would like to get some thing like that for my slow trac
 
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