Iowan saying hello to any Alaskans and fellow Iowans

[Doofy]

Hopefully, very hopeful, the natural gas line goes through.
Supposed to have at least 5 outlets for Alaskan uses.
The cost for heating and electric will go down dramatically...I hope.

You have no idea how convenient that is here. Natural gas is so cheap here.
My furnace, water heater, stove/oven, and now the dryer all run on it. Highest gas bill last winter when we were 20 below for 2 - 3 weeks was $80

Now electricity...our electric is about 17 cent kwh. Not far behind yours. Thanks to the freaking windmill farms here.

I don't see natural gas ever being available here as we are to far away from the people hubs. Alaska is great at "White Elephants" and boondoggle. Politicians, for the most part, are there to serve themselves and their buddy's, not the people. Fairbanks may get liquefied natural gas that is trucked in from the Slope and I'll bet it will not be cheap.

We had a new hydro plant come on line last summer so we are on Hydro power for about 5 or 6 months a year now and that offsets the high cost of our diesel generation but now we see the added cost of building the hydro added to our monthly bills. Can't win for losing!

 

[prichard]

I have to say I am thoroughly confused. I admit I hate cold and snow. But I can see the attraction of moving to the "frontier".

All logic ends there. IA and AK - one of those states is know for agriculture and one is not. So you want to move from one of the best growing areas in the country to one of the worst to become a farmer?

 

[oosik]

I'd say you have an excellent grasp of the situation - prichard.

 

[Doofy]

I'd say you have an excellent grasp of the situation - prichard.

Amen. Alaska is still very much a young persons state. It takes a lot of energy to fully enjoy the outdoors. The hunting and fishing is still good but a person can only camp out for so long. Work normally interferes with play and by the time you can afford to play your body rebells and decides it is not as much fun as when younger.

 

[oosik]

You are right on Doofy. Its because AK is a young persons state that I'm down here in retirement. Even in Anchorage: the winter is long, the nights are long, the continual cold becomes a bother. I got very tired of being with good friends whose only winter-time recreation was drinking. Of course, now, I guess it could include drug use.

 

[Doofy]

You are right on Doofy. Its because AK is a young persons state that I'm down here in retirement. Even in Anchorage: the winter is long, the nights are long, the continual cold becomes a bother. I got very tired of being with good friends whose only winter-time recreation was drinking. Of course, now, I guess it could include drug use.

Oosik, I was blessed to never have had an alcohol or a drug problem. The cold has never bothered me but the long bouts of darkness is beginning to wear me down. Aches and pains are continual these days and I absolutely hate snow. Middle of April and the snow piles in the yard are still 6' high. If I wait to much longer to leave, I may never make it out alive.

P.S. Do your friends know what an "oosik" is? Cracks me up!

 

[3gunr]

My in-laws are in homer have been there since the 60s. They always complain about gas prices .When the refinery is 80 miles away ,And there still paying 1.50 more a gallon than we do here.My father in- law was a bush pilot; and when I lived there in the 80s got to fly all over the state doing construction jobs in native villages.It was very hard work with the weather fighting you all the time.But I was young and loved it.Couldnt do it now.Too soft.Hope you make it work.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

P.S. Do your friends know what an "oosik" is? Cracks me up!

Every time I see his handle, it makes me wonder if some one gave it to him because he was a pri**? lol lol

Anyway, I lived in south central and NO I didn't work for the guberment...

SR

 

[oosik]

Well.......darn. I'll just have to tell why I choose Oosik. As one of my retirement gifts when I departed the Anchorage Health Dept - I was given a cribbage board carved out of an oosik.

Cribbage is one game I truly enjoy - we played that game EVERY noon hour for at least the last eight to ten years I worked at the Health Dept.

And no it not because I was a plick - and no its not because I needed any "help". And I can't mention the other things that have been suggested over the years.

I just knew it would be somebody like Doofy or AKfish that would pick up on the term.

 

[Doofy]

Well.......darn. I'll just have to tell why I choose Oosik. As one of my retirement gifts when I departed the Anchorage Health Dept - I was given a cribbage board carved out of an oosik.

Cribbage is one game I truly enjoy - we played that game EVERY noon hour for at least the last eight to ten years I worked at the Health Dept.

And no it not because I was a plick - and no its not because I needed any "help". And I can't mention the other things that have been suggested over the years.

I just knew it would be somebody like Doofy or AKfish that would pick up on the term.

Good reason, great choice!