[Sca-cooks] OT: Weather in Oertha

[Terry Decker]

Four hundred miles.  Where you at, Fairbanks?

That "hint of rain;" I've had to teardown and clear a site in 30 minutes, 
because the flood crest was five feet above normal and the site would be cut 
off for the next three days.  And I've been in a camp while lightning 
strikes blasted in around us on one of those "dry" weekends.  Weather is 
always local and it's a judgement call.

I'll point out that 50 miles can be worse than running Highway 3, if it's 
through Dallas or Chicago at rush hour.  Because of the population density 
and the distances involved, I'll bet large events in Oertha are few and far 
between and carefully planned and scheduled to get the most attendence. 
That's the way it used to be in the early days of Ansteorra with two or 
three major events per month and time to recuperate in between.  Now we have 
two to four events per weekend and the travel can be a real drag.  Sometimes 
50 miles IS just too much.

Bear


> Yeah. We often you guys down in the states (what we call Outside) are 
> really wimps. A hint of rain and some people don't go to events, and drive 
> 50 miles, that's just too far (G). Our next closest group -- 
> that you can drive to -- is nearly 400 miles away. And there are two 
> groups in Oertha you either only fly to (Kotzebue) or fly/take the ferry 
> (Kodiak). You gotta be a traveling fool to live in Alaska...
>
> Morgana