Alaska's West Coast Storm Photos (live, yard, area)

[blueflames50]

like any area...until it affects a major populated area you don't hear about it and the people deal with it and move on....the major metropolitan area people whine and complain waiting for help to arrive!

[heathen]

Wasn't it the fear of a storm surge and severe beach erosion that were getting so much media attention, rather than high winds? 70 mile an hour winds aren't really a big deal anywhere immediately on the west coast, at least as far as northern California or so.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by heathen

Wasn't it the fear of a storm surge and severe beach erosion that were getting so much media attention, rather than high winds? 70 mile an hour winds aren't really a big deal anywhere immediately on the west coast, at least as far as northern California or so.

Anytime there is a coastal storm you have erosion along the shore. Just nowadays it is blamed on man made global warming which has become a religion to the followers of Gore, and a major source of money to the scammers that push it (that would be Gore again)

Global warming has gone on for centuries, and will keep doing it long after we have eraticated ourselves off the planet. Twenty five thousand years ago (don't have specific dates) the Great Lakes were under ice sheets a mile thick, there were also Wooly Mamouths walking around Alaska. It's all gone now, so what, that is what Nature does, it evolves and at some point we are going to be evolved off this ride as well, sooner if we keep being stupid about cutting our nose off to spite our face.

[Moose Whisperer]

Originally Posted by heathen

Wasn't it the fear of a storm surge and severe beach erosion that were getting so much media attention, rather than high winds?

That's what I keep telling myself, and that's what I think a knowledgeable person would take away from the coverage. However, my comment was aimed more to point out that it appears the media are increasingly trying to manufacture crises before the fact, for their own nefarious purposes.

But to the point of the wind, I was down in Salt Lake City this week for a meeting. I had at least half a dozen people ask me how I was getting home since it obviously must be impossible to land a plane in those 100+ mph winds!

[Nephler]

Hasn't there been palm fossils, or some other similar tropical plant, been found in northern AK?
I seem to remember reading they were found along some river bed or something.
The Earth cools, warms, cools again, and warms again, over thousands of years.

And just to add something about the Great Lakes. It's been discovered that there has been 3 or 4 different ice sheets that formed the lakes, each time digging deeper and wider.

[SityData]

In the past on the north slope when drilling for oil, many palm plant fossils have been uncovered. Alaska used to be a tropical zone before the poles shifted eons ago.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Nephler

Hasn't there been palm fossils, or some other similar tropical plant, been found in northern AK?
I seem to remember reading they were found along some river bed or something.
The Earth cools, warms, cools again, and warms again, over thousands of years.

And just to add something about the Great Lakes. It's been discovered that there has been 3 or 4 different ice sheets that formed the lakes, each time digging deeper and wider.

There is a place on the Yukon River that is called the "Bone Yard"... There is a lot of fossils found there as well as a lot of wierd plants that come from a lot time ago that seem to thrive as the seeds thaw out. The seeds seemed to have done just fine when frozen all these thousands of years.

As the Yukon river cuts into the banks, you see an assortment of bones and Ivory Tusks sticking out of the banks. It is suppose to be illegal to dig them out, but seems if they don't they are just going to fall into the river and be lost.

Lots of the guys that mine gold will uncover them as well, but since they are found on their mine, they can keep them.

Funny how all the bones and ivory found are from mines....

[naturesdreams]

Sounds like a fascinating place to visit Star...

Devils lake, in Wisconsin is another example of the glacier and the ice age.. some of the oldest explosed rock in the lower 48 on many of the trails there.

It's a shame we don't see more about the weather in your areas. I, for one, would like to see what it's like. I'm just going to have to experience it for my self I suppose

[blueflames50]

That surely would be a fascinating place to visit Starlite! know of any photos around of that area??

[Nephler]

Originally Posted by starlite9

There is a place on the Yukon River that is called the "Bone Yard"... There is a lot of fossils found there as well as a lot of wierd plants that come from a lot time ago that seem to thrive as the seeds thaw out. The seeds seemed to have done just fine when frozen all these thousands of years.

As the Yukon river cuts into the banks, you see an assortment of bones and Ivory Tusks sticking out of the banks. It is suppose to be illegal to dig them out, but seems if they don't they are just going to fall into the river and be lost.

Lots of the guys that mine gold will uncover them as well, but since they are found on their mine, they can keep them.

Funny how all the bones and ivory found are from mines....

That sounds right. Think that is where I had heard/read about. I find it quite interesting in regards to what you said about the plants coming from seeds. Do they only last the summer and then another "crop" comes out from different type of seed?