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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (456397)10/29/2020 11:02:12 AM
From: koan1 Recommendation   of 541777
 
They only happen in winter when the temperature is about zero.

And when the wind blows that hard at 0 degrees it dries out the wood.

So the wood is like kindling. When it catches fire with the wind it is hard to put out.

I also know a person cannot spend much time outdoors in that as the wind chill is massive.

So when I hear of a mountain climber caught in one of those, I know what they are going through and am amazed they survive at all. Often they don't.

But in Juneau they only occur in downtown Juneau and across the channel, but not in the valley.

Geography.

Imagine the mountains behind are like chocolate drops lined up. Then air is forced between the chocolate drops. It is compressed, like when a river gets real narrow.

10 years after being in Juneau, I moved to the valley-lol.

There is often a lot of roof damage and sometimes the roofs blow right off.

As mentioned the city of Douglas has burned to the ground twice.

PS if you look at a map you will see that right below Juneau is the huge Taku river, and river valley. It is a big salmon river with lots of king salmon. Going up that river is pure pristine wilderness, like Lewis and Clark pristine.

The winds come down that in winter, and howling.
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