It is December already!!

Hello, it has been a while since I posted, I have been very busy. It is already December, wow, hard to believe. In a week and a half I will be flying Kivalina - Kotzebue -Anchorage -Seattle - Chicago - Milwaukee. 27 hrs but it will be so worth it. I am looking forward to many of the comforts I have not had in 4.5 months. T.V. will be high on my list, but fresh fruit and produce is at the top of the list. Can not wait for a big green salad or a granny smith apple. MMMMMM! A lot has happened since my last post. We had one of the worst storms in a decade the beginning og November, the surf was very high and caused a lot of concern for flooding. Since we are located on a narrow strip of land surrounded by water, I can see the concern. We had quite a few people evacuate to the school the first night of the storm, the second day of the storm there was a general evacuation into the village. Teachers organized the rooms/security and monitored the phone/c.b & vhf radio. The winds were 75 mph plus and the seas were ~15 ft waves. The beach disappeared and the waves broke over the north end of the seawall. We survived with just a small amount of flooding. The temperatures then dropped for the next three weeks, daytime highs were around -15 to -20 wind chills dipped into the -40 range. The daylight has also disappeared. we had 18 hrs of daylight when I arrived in August -we are down to just over two hours of daylight now. The sun pokes over the southern horizon and creeps along the horizon for a brief period of time before leaving. Last weekend (De. 3-4) we had another blizzard, winds were around 45 mph we also received snow but it is hard to tell how much because it all blew into drifts. Some are in the 4 to 5 foot high range but most are not that high. Well, that is about it for excitement in Kivalina, Alaska. Take care