Hey Lipglossed! Welcome! Is it true that in Alaska ya'll have several months of daylight and several months of darkness? How is the EMS up there? Glad you are here!!! Good luck with that test!
No, that is NOT true. A lot of stereotypes about Alaska are false. Let me clear up the majority of the ones I get asked:
December 21 is the shortest day of the year, with only about 3 hours of sunlight. We then gain about 6 minutes each day until July 21, when we have about 21 hours of sunlight. Then we lose about 6 minutes until Dec 21 and the cycle continues.
We do NOT use dog sleds as our means of transportation. I drive an 01 Hyundai Sonata, my boyfriend drives an 04 Toyota Tacoma. Ambulances and Fire trucks are just like everywhere else.
Moose and polar bears are not our pets. We don't even have polar bears in the interior.
We do not live in igloos, nor do we all live in cabins scattered every few miles. I live in North Pole (yes, all the light poles and fire hydrants are red and white, and we do have a 40 ft Santa statue right next to a gift shop called Santa Clauses house), about 10 miles from Fairbanks, the second largest city in Alaska, with a combined population of 34,007 (as of the year 2000) and almost 26,000 are caucasion (so no, we aren't all Eskimos [I'm white], no one even calls them Eskimos, they are "Natives").
We have a military base on either side of us. An Air Force base, and an Army Post. Each has a population of about 7,000, but a lot of the Army guys are deployed right now.
It is not -60 for 6 months either. As in my previous posts, it stays around -10 to -20 for most of the winter, but for 1 week in January, it plummets to -45 or -50. And we dont all wear Carharts and parkas all the time either. We do have a Sears, and we have 2 Fred Meyer/Kroger. We have 3 Safeways, we have a Gottschalks (used to be LaMonts).
I hope you enjoyed my history/geography lesson
, any other questions feel free to message me. And yes, I get those questions a lot.
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