Posted on 03/16/2007 11:59:53 AM PDT by george76
ANCHORAGE ON TRACK TO SET RECORD FOR COLDEST MARCH
Most winters, Norm Anderson merely has to climb aboard his boat in the harbor and make sure his oil-pan heater is still keeping the engine warm before he turns over the F/V Sea Otter for a winter king fishing excursion.
"The ice is killing me," Anderson said. "I've had to cancel close to 50 trips this winter because I just can't get out of the harbor."
A frozen harbor is nothing new around Homer. In fact, Homer Harbormaster Steve Dean said it's actually fairly normal. The difference this year, however, is how late the ice is sticking around.
"Its a little later in the year for ice to be socked in the harbor," Dean said. "It usually happens sometime in December or January."
Anderson agreed, noting that he has been chartering since the mid-1990s and fishing the area for more than 20 years.
"Certain years, it just freezes up and you deal with it," he said. "But this one has lasted for a while, and it's costing me tens of thousands of dollars."
And for those looking for a reprieve from the imprisoning ice, National Weather Service warning coordination meteorologist Sam Albanese with the Anchorage office has some bad news: The low temperatures should last for days more.
"Right now, you guys in Homer are quite a bit off normal, with your low temperatures and high temperatures running around 15 degrees colder than usual,"
"Currently, both our response harbor tug and our skiff are completely frozen in," Dean said.
With more than six inches of ice surrounding some boats, some owners are walking around their boats and between floats on the frozen harbor surface.
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No, don't think I've posted it before. Another 'found' gif.
I love finding good gifs...
8-)
Thats the problem with "global Warming" - sometimes you get unpredictablility (actual moonbat statement!!!!!)
In other words sometimes it's colder and sometimes it's warmer- but it's all somehow due to global warming...
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