Subject: Rural Alaska/Russia

From: [email-masked]
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1993 05:15:40 GMT

Hello all, does Nome, Alaska count as rural?? Population around 3500-4000..

Just saying hi.. We got rid of the honeybuckets a year or so ago..

(honey bucket = basically a indoor outhouse with a bucket that cab be removed
and dumped) 

Soem of the local villages do have running water, and electicity, but not all..
Or atleast not all the houses are wired and plumbed for it.. And Sewege, 
well most still use honey buckets..

My mom and step dad are working on projects to bring agriculture to select
villages farther south of here. The local people go out and pick berries around
fall time, and it would be a great thing for them to be able to grow the
berried for harvest.. And make jams and jellis and such for sale..
One way to keep kids from getting board and doing mischief..

Eastern Siberia is a fun place I have heard.. Soem of my friends have visited,
they are really in trouble or so it sounds, but.. we shall see..

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Ghost Wheel - [email-masked]
Member of the Nome Volunteer Ambulance Service, 
serving Nome, Norton Sound Region, NW Alaska and at times Eastern Siberia
(Russia)..

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From: Mark Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1993 22:30:07 -0700 (PDT)

Howdy -

     I visited Barrow two weeks ago.  Normally, I live on Bainbridge Island,
WA, just across Puget Sound from Seattle.  Unfortunately, our little 10 x 5
mile island now has 15,000 people in it, so the rural quality of life is
rapidly vanishing.

     I thought that Barrow was quite interesting.  I missed Nalukataq by two
days, though, *sigh* (I'm a whale eater, having acquired the habit in Japan).
They've pretty much gotten rid of the honey buckets in Barrow too; they have
running water, electricity, sewage, natural gas, and a better cable TV system
than I have at home.

     But, Barrow did treat us to snow flurries on the first day of summer.

     Does Nome have permafrost and tundra, or is it too far south for that?

-- Mark --