BUSH DIARY NOVEMBER 1997:
11-1: Barrow is officially damp, folks can possess alcohol, consume privately but not sell, trade or barter. Like THAT would happen.
11-6: Went to the airport to meet Tim. Plane was late and they announced that the flight out tonight was making a special flag stop at Prudhoe as they had equipment and personnel that just had to get delivered. Unfortunately that would add an hour to everything. Plane finally got in and Tim got off with Bradford and carryon. No BOJA. Tim went back to make baggage claim thing and Boja turned up, she was stowed in the Prudhoe Bay equipment. All right then. All is good.
Saturday 11-7: Very bad day in Barrow. A Hageland Air flight took off for Wainwright at 8:06 am and crashed killing all on board. Sad part is that there was a coffin on board with family all going to Wainwright for the funeral. The plane went down 100 yards off shore. The whole town is in shock.
Ron Nalikak was part of the recovery team and he was decompressing and describing some of the more horrific stuff. They had to pull the plane out of the water. All of the passengers were trapped in the front from the weight of the coffin which broke loose on impact. Ron said that the metal coffin weighed about 500 pounds and actually bent in the middle. They had to use the Jaws to cut the plane apart. The jaws blade actually bent cutting apart some of the structures on the plane. Thank God for Marines.
Going High Tech with the bus route. North Slope Borough has been developing a bus map on channel 57. It shows the three main bus routes and real time location so one could estimate when to start walking to the bus stop. Very nice.
Computer Game: Holiday on Tuesday, Veteran's Day. I got the sequel to Myst called Riven, very mysterious and lots of puzzles to solve. I mostly navigate through the beautiful scenery. Only thing is it is a very big game,five discs. Have to stop from time to time to change discs. Ugh.
Jury Duty: I got the duty through the end of January 1998. What fun. I have been called once but the parties settled before even calling in the jury. Yay!
Most of the week before Thanksgiving was spent straightening out the bill pay services. A set of replacement cards did not show up and I was using expired cards. Then those cards were reported missing which started a cascade of closed cards and unpaid utilities. So I spent some time trotting around Barrow paying by check and explaining the happenstance. Erk.
Pharmacy: Payless did not send my meds. After some floundering around I discovered that one of the lady doctors wrote me some scrips and all of them were sitting in the pharmacy at the hospital. Then the Payless scrips showed up in the mail, now I got extra. Yay, me.
Gotta rest up now, G'night folks.
11-1: Barrow is officially damp, folks can possess alcohol, consume privately but not sell, trade or barter. Like THAT would happen.
11-6: Went to the airport to meet Tim. Plane was late and they announced that the flight out tonight was making a special flag stop at Prudhoe as they had equipment and personnel that just had to get delivered. Unfortunately that would add an hour to everything. Plane finally got in and Tim got off with Bradford and carryon. No BOJA. Tim went back to make baggage claim thing and Boja turned up, she was stowed in the Prudhoe Bay equipment. All right then. All is good.
Saturday 11-7: Very bad day in Barrow. A Hageland Air flight took off for Wainwright at 8:06 am and crashed killing all on board. Sad part is that there was a coffin on board with family all going to Wainwright for the funeral. The plane went down 100 yards off shore. The whole town is in shock.
Ron Nalikak was part of the recovery team and he was decompressing and describing some of the more horrific stuff. They had to pull the plane out of the water. All of the passengers were trapped in the front from the weight of the coffin which broke loose on impact. Ron said that the metal coffin weighed about 500 pounds and actually bent in the middle. They had to use the Jaws to cut the plane apart. The jaws blade actually bent cutting apart some of the structures on the plane. Thank God for Marines.
Going High Tech with the bus route. North Slope Borough has been developing a bus map on channel 57. It shows the three main bus routes and real time location so one could estimate when to start walking to the bus stop. Very nice.
Computer Game: Holiday on Tuesday, Veteran's Day. I got the sequel to Myst called Riven, very mysterious and lots of puzzles to solve. I mostly navigate through the beautiful scenery. Only thing is it is a very big game,five discs. Have to stop from time to time to change discs. Ugh.
Jury Duty: I got the duty through the end of January 1998. What fun. I have been called once but the parties settled before even calling in the jury. Yay!
Most of the week before Thanksgiving was spent straightening out the bill pay services. A set of replacement cards did not show up and I was using expired cards. Then those cards were reported missing which started a cascade of closed cards and unpaid utilities. So I spent some time trotting around Barrow paying by check and explaining the happenstance. Erk.
Pharmacy: Payless did not send my meds. After some floundering around I discovered that one of the lady doctors wrote me some scrips and all of them were sitting in the pharmacy at the hospital. Then the Payless scrips showed up in the mail, now I got extra. Yay, me.
Gotta rest up now, G'night folks.
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