[Jenae LaTorque]

Oh I see, we want to talk about weather extremes. I worked one winter on the North Slope of Alaska. The scale of the thermometer on the Cookie Shack

went down to 30 degrees farenheit below zero and I didn't see no color on it from the time I got there in November untill the end of March when it finally

rose to 30 below. It is so cold there that it is considered a desert in the wintertime as there is no availible moisture; it has all frozen and fallen to the

ground. If the wind is blowing even a little bit, then any exposed skin will suffer frostbite in a short time. A thirty mph wind will do it in under a minute. Your breath freezes and sticks to your facemask, but you learn to leave it there as it is warmer than the air around you. Now I live in Wyoming where at

time the winter gets bad, but the thing on the North Slope is that it is damn cold all the time, every day, or should I say all night as where I was we didn't

see the sun there until April. 24 hours a day of dark. But, my god, the Northern Lights were beautiful. And when you are that far north, they are not on

the horizon, they are over head and span the heavens. I had seen pictures and film of them before, but they didn't begin to compare with actually

standing under the Northern Lights.