Back in the "Bad ol' Days" when I lived in Western Alaska - Yupik Eskimo
Country - I went in the early winter out to Chevak, a small Eskimo
Village way out on the tundra. It was winter, and in pursuit of the
purpose of my visit there I went to the school to do an environmental
survey on the facility. The front ot the building was completely covered
in a massive snowbank that went from ground level all the way up the
face of the building and curled over onto the top of the building. It
was quite high. To enter the building I had to walk stooped through a 25
foot snow tunnel to get to the front door, The odd part was that aside
from a small drift at the rear of the building, it was relatively free
of snow.

I talked to the principal teacher, got together with the official school
maintenance person, a local Eskimo man, and did my job and left.

Way over in the spring I went back out to the School at Chevak. There
was no snow at all at the school front, none along the sides, gut there
was a massive snowbank on the rear of the building, all the way up to
the roof peak. This time I commented to the maintenance man that the
last time I was out there the snow was deep around front. He then
replied with a perfectly straight face, "Yes, that is the way it is here
on the tundra! It just snows once at the beginning of winter, and then
simply blows back and forth the reast of the time!"

Cracked me up!!

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Don Deitke wrote:

>More aged wisdom & knowledge from another Good Ole Boy /You finished off the
>whole tune !!! //  The sun tis FINNNALLLY shinning here TODAY and we have
>recieved not a little dab will do ya, but a massive blob will do ya in  // SNOW
>THAT IS //
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