Anchorage area hasn't had one in years. Fairbanks does, much to Anchorage's chagrin.

You want some of ours? We’d be happy to share....

Actually, most sled dogs are the calmest, quietest neighbors! Well, got to have their twice a day howl, usually 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.

There's plenty of snow in Fairbanks, but Anchorage is 355 miles from here.

However, the assholes who run that shithole city won't pay the RR fees anymore. So fuck 'em!

But I didn't have to shovel the sand!

We did about 7 dozen sandbags for the last flood in Nenana; my arms hurt for weeks! Snow's easier!

Yes I meant take our snow!

I guess I didn’t word that too well ....

I lived in Willow for 6 years in the early 90s. Knew a lot of mushers, did a little dogsledding myself.

But even then the weather was changing, the winters getting warmer, the snow getting less. The last 2 or 3 years I was there, the Iditarod had to start from Willow instead of Anchorage, because there wasn't enough snow.

My eldest still lives in Anchorage, I get firsthand weather reports, so I've been following the warming year after year.

How it used to be, is no more.

no snow to mention, rain off and on, but I think we might be below averages so far.

Hell, it hasn't even froze here in the lowlands yet, or at least not more than a couple of times. It gets cold enough to frost up the windows on the car, but haven't had a hard freeze yet.