Every day, I bring my son to school around 745AM and because
it is winter, this is how my daily commute looks like:
Your body tells you it can't be morning because the moon is
still up! The sun comes up 10AM in the morning here and sets sometime 6PM. I
have finally experienced what "short days and long nights" literally
mean.
Driving at this hour is a bit tricky the first time because
you are adjusting to the terrain, the snow and the darkness. The second time I
drove my son to school there was a blizzard going on. That was an experience
both for me and my son. My son who is usually talkative and noisy was so quite
at the back of the car :-) That shut him up for once. Add to that excitement
(!) was the fact that the bay is on the other side of the road :-o EXCITING!
one miss and you could have the scare of your life.
This driver had a close call:
You would think that blizzard and heavy snow is dangerous,
no no no, not as dangerous as when snow melts and turns into mush. That's when
you have accidents like this. There were about 6 cars that skidded and had
minor accidents on this day alone.
This taxi was on the right side of the road and skidded down to the left side when it couldn't maneuver up the driveway.
This guy had to be rescued from where his car ended up - in the ditch.
The extractor on the rightmost side of the photo rescued a truck but ended up in the ditch too and needed to be rescued by his big brother - the tractor :-) These are just four of the six accidents that I took pictures of but I think you get the drift.
OHHHH ALASKA!
