Originally Posted by asianthree

Our oldest lived in Fairbanks for 7 1/2 years. As he said most do not realize how much pollution there is an Alaska.

For instance if you go into town to go shopping or want to go to the movies, and there is no place to plug your truck in, you leave it running. Sometimes for hours at a time or otherwise it will freeze up. Wood fire is main heat.

There are many locals that instead of taking their garbage to the dump, it just gets thrown out the back door. And another bonus is if you do you take your trash in the back of your truck to the dump you have a 50% chance of a raven swooping in, while you were driving, picking up a trash bag and taking off with it.

A raven Is large enough to pick up your dog and take it with them. They almost lost their 11lb Puppy when a Raven picked it up and started flying away.

Ravens are sacred it is against the law to kill, them.

The mosquitoes are extremely large and can actually kill a person. He also lost two people to fog freeze when it came through their windshield and killed them. It’s against the law to drive during fog freeze, some just don’t listen.

Alaska is beautiful, but if you go outside the tourist trap, you May be shocked.