if you’re cooking that much bacon do it in the oven.  perfect results every time and much less hands on.

the buyers of these trucks live in places where pedestrians do not exist

new tacomas are bigger than my 83 f150.  new f150s are the same height as my 03' f350.  course, with CCLB i still have them beat for length...

though i’m not even old enough to have experienced that, is it safe to speculate that, while there was a LACK of infrastructure in the 70s, its now FAILING infrastructure?

anchorage area lakes already have 8" inches of ice.  lack of snow to insulate freezes the ground fast.  but i’m not down there so not sure exactly.  ground is frozen hard in fairbanks.

villages experiencing drastic coastal erosion have applied for assistance from fema and been denied

thats due to multiple glaciations, over a longer time period, compacting and lithifying the till.  glacial remnants in this part of the country are very recent.  there is strong till for sure but theres a lot of unsteady ground in alaska.

i mean, i guess. its a much shorter boat ride though.

well you can drive onto a boat...and then to the capital

till is not what was under the glacier, it is what is left behind by the glacier, eg. unsorted silts. there is a gradient between bouldery till and silty till/drift. much of the mat-su has this silty material. further north we have a lot of loess which is EXTREMELY prone to liquefaction.

yes and yes. we are also experiencing climate change much sooner and more severely than the lower 48, creating permafrost thaw and ruining our roads. currently we pander to the oil companies and provide maintenance on highways on which oil equipment is by far the greatest percentage of traffic, at the same time that…

we have FOUR, thank you very much. and MOST of them are paved!

luckily the ground is frozen already or that would have been a major concern.  much of the land north of anchorage is glacial till which is very susceptible to liquefaction

oh, and theres the potential for the EPA to withhold federal infrastructure funding due to air quality conditions in the interior

just want to point out that the state of infrastructure in alaska is abysmal, even compared to the rest of the US.  Our roads are failing and bridges are falling apart even without earthquakes.  We now have a new governor with no clear plan forward other than a vague promise to give everyone $6700.  We’re just, maybe,…

shook my office building nearly 400 miles north

ah yes this ‘fad’ thats been going on for over 35 years already

i have pulled full size pickups and SUVs out of the ditch in the snow with my subaru impreza multiple times

yeah but i live and work in places that have had -72 BEFORE the wind chill.

heck i live at 65N and you still dont see people wearing them til it hits 40 below