JIM WELLER (1:123/140) wrote to BJ”RN FORSSTR”M at 23:27 on 18 Jan 2005:

 JW> Northern North America just came out off a monster blizzard. It
 JW> wasn't so bad here in Yellowknife but north of me in Tuktoyaktuk
 JW> they had drifts 5-8 metres high! There were 120 km/hr winds blowing
 JW> 4 days straight. In today's local paper there was a picture of a
 JW> drift up to a guy's upstairs bedroom windows that buried his car
 JW> completely. The drift was over twice the height of the vehicle.

 JW> The winds are always worse north of the tree line than they are
 JW> here. 

We had a fair bit of snow here in Whitehorse at the same time but little in
the way of drifts as there was little wind.:-)

We were up to -13 today so life is improving.

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}gmail.com)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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