You can kind of see the snow here. :)
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Did I mention it's still September?!?
We had snow flurries several times today! I'm so excited for winter! Tonight, it snowed pretty heavily for about 5 minutes. It melted off of course, but it's going to start happening more often and pretty soon, there will be snow on the ground again! YAY!
You can kind of see the snow here. :)
You can kind of see the snow here. :)
Friday, September 21, 2012
Summer's over!
Today's September 21, and the last day of September. We really don't have fall up here, so we're quickly sliding into winter! The weather people are already predicting snow showers next Friday (one week from today). It sounds about right, because we did get a light snow last year at the beginning of October. It didn't stick, but it was definitely there.
Last year, it was interesting when we had our first snows. At the hospital, the lobby has a large area of windows and a lot of people, natives and transplants were out in the lobby, watching the snow come down, as if they had never seen it before. It was kind of nice to see people take pleasure in something so simple!
I'm really looking forward to the snow this winter. Everything looks so much cleaner and fresher. No allergies or mosquitos or mosquito bites. It's a nice time of year! :)
This is from July, when the mosquitoes really came out. We had so many mosquitoes in the house, I was going crazy! I woke up in the morning with these two bites on my face (one in my eyebrow) and about 8 others on me. So I hunted mosquitoes that day with my bug zapper and killed something like 20 of them in the house that day. I'm so relieved that they're gone now that it's too cold for them!
Last year, it was interesting when we had our first snows. At the hospital, the lobby has a large area of windows and a lot of people, natives and transplants were out in the lobby, watching the snow come down, as if they had never seen it before. It was kind of nice to see people take pleasure in something so simple!
I'm really looking forward to the snow this winter. Everything looks so much cleaner and fresher. No allergies or mosquitos or mosquito bites. It's a nice time of year! :)
This is from July, when the mosquitoes really came out. We had so many mosquitoes in the house, I was going crazy! I woke up in the morning with these two bites on my face (one in my eyebrow) and about 8 others on me. So I hunted mosquitoes that day with my bug zapper and killed something like 20 of them in the house that day. I'm so relieved that they're gone now that it's too cold for them!
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Other things that happen in Bethel, that wouldn't happen anywhere else...
The hospital is currently under some construction. Because of the high moisture, asbestos is a common problem. For example, several years ago, the hospital built about 6 apartment buildings next to the hospital for employees. Unfortunately, they discovered asbestos a few years later and now they're abandoned/condemned because of the asbestos. So there they sit. Empty and slowly deteriorating.
Anyways, recently they discovered asbestos in all of the inpatient wing of the hospital. That's where patients stay when they're hospitalized. They had to get it fixed, so they built a wall and are fixing one half of the wing. This means that they're short of hospital beds and occasionally, they call the outpatient clinics (where we both work) and tell us they're on divert. So that means that when we're on divert, any patients that need to be admitted end up getting medevac'd to Anchorage.
And this is only the first half! Once that's done, they'll be switching to ther other side of the wing to get that one repaired. So crazy!!!
Anyways, recently they discovered asbestos in all of the inpatient wing of the hospital. That's where patients stay when they're hospitalized. They had to get it fixed, so they built a wall and are fixing one half of the wing. This means that they're short of hospital beds and occasionally, they call the outpatient clinics (where we both work) and tell us they're on divert. So that means that when we're on divert, any patients that need to be admitted end up getting medevac'd to Anchorage.
And this is only the first half! Once that's done, they'll be switching to ther other side of the wing to get that one repaired. So crazy!!!
Saturday, September 8, 2012
The current cost of watermelon!
I just had to share this because even having lived here for a year and a half, I was still astonished!
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Things that happen in Bethel, that wouldn't happen anywhere else...
Wow, it sure has been awhile since we've posted. In the last 4 months, we've been back to Oregon for a visit, which was really great! I wish we could've seen more family and friends, but it went by way too fast!
Our small airport is currently under construction and has been for several months. The City of Bethel was having the airstrip resurfaced, causing a number of problems. The project has cut the runway in half lengthwise, which makes it much harder for planes to land in high winds. We have three flights (on Ala.ska Airl.ines) daily and lately, a number of them have either not left Anchorage at all, or left, but got to Bethel and turned back around over the town.
The other day, the morning plane was coming in, and even had their landing gear down, flew over the house and Jeff and I noticed that they were pretty high up still. It was foggy that morning, and instead of landing, the plane kept on going and turned back to Bethel. Poor people! That would stink.
The project was stalled for nearly a month (leaving Bethel with only half the runway) because the building materials hadn't passed the state requirements.
There have been rumors going around town that Alas.ka Airl.ines was going to withdraw all their flights this winter because of the poor runway conditions. However, according to DOT, the airport should be good this winter.
It will be interesting because we constantly have high winds, fog and snow in the winter; we are wondering how many flights are going to be cancelled or delayed because of this. It should be an interesting winter!
(Just a fun little fact: Bethel airport is the 3rd busiest passenger airport in the state and the 2nd busiest cargo airport in the state.
Our small airport is currently under construction and has been for several months. The City of Bethel was having the airstrip resurfaced, causing a number of problems. The project has cut the runway in half lengthwise, which makes it much harder for planes to land in high winds. We have three flights (on Ala.ska Airl.ines) daily and lately, a number of them have either not left Anchorage at all, or left, but got to Bethel and turned back around over the town.
The other day, the morning plane was coming in, and even had their landing gear down, flew over the house and Jeff and I noticed that they were pretty high up still. It was foggy that morning, and instead of landing, the plane kept on going and turned back to Bethel. Poor people! That would stink.
The project was stalled for nearly a month (leaving Bethel with only half the runway) because the building materials hadn't passed the state requirements.
There have been rumors going around town that Alas.ka Airl.ines was going to withdraw all their flights this winter because of the poor runway conditions. However, according to DOT, the airport should be good this winter.
It will be interesting because we constantly have high winds, fog and snow in the winter; we are wondering how many flights are going to be cancelled or delayed because of this. It should be an interesting winter!
(Just a fun little fact: Bethel airport is the 3rd busiest passenger airport in the state and the 2nd busiest cargo airport in the state.
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