Sunrise at 9:18 and Sunset at 18:55.
32 more minutes than my last blog! 48 hours of blizzard wind and storm. Now they say the weather is "fair."
In very local news (that was never reported outside the affected surrounding areas), all the cities in the Northwest Territories North of 60, lost their Northwestel phone and internet connections from Friday February 25, 2011 to Monday February 28, 2011 due to a broken communication tower.
This is easily fixable except for the extreme winds and blizzard conditions that initially caused the damage closed down the roads. The howling winds. Oh...the howling winds!
I took a video of them and had to take a second one as they got stronger and seemed even more determined to break into the Magic Bus. I took a video of the door that leads to the little back patio. Snow was coming in and the whistle from the wind was fierce. Every noise you hear in the video is from the wind blowing on the Magic Bus. It was so nice to finally hear quiet this morning.
This was at night. The buidling you see outside the patio door of the Magic Bus is the store. The sateliite is not mine unfortunately.
The wind blows with more ferocity later through the night and into the next day
The howling patio door frame. I had to put a towel on the floor because I could feel a shower of snow everytime I walked past. It was collecting in a pool of water on the floor.
In other news, I am 6 losses to 1 win in BINGO! Revenge of the missed big box side bet! Woohoo...managed to recover half of all my contributions. I am scared to get back in the game and watch it go.
What is a little more scary though was that without the communication tower in operation we had no way of using debit, credit and/or the ATM machine. It was a real moment where you see how technology has really shaped our lives. I figured the winnings would get me through any necessary purchases at the store through the weekend.
I did have my provisions from home to sort through and unpack so all was well but imagining the need to plan so differently without internet and/or telephone services was really thought provoking.
In other news, don't let Mayonnaise freeze in transition!! The supply in my packages from home looked like this.
Drin Gwiinzii