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Conoco: Device at Anchorage airport for avalanches
2014-02-18 08:37:54| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
The employer of a man whose carry-on bag was found to contain a small explosive device at the Anchorage airport said Monday he was carrying avalanche-control equipment.
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Record warmth, huge avalanches isolate Alaska town
2014-01-29 18:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Daily Climate: Cold weather slamming into the Midwest and Eastern United States has plenty of people feeling isolated and cut-off. Turns out the corresponding record warmth baking Alaska as the polar vortex shifts has made that literally true for the coastal town of Valdez. Over the weekend a series of unprecedented avalanches buried the Richardson Highway, the sole route connecting the town of 4,000 to the state's road system, beneath 50 to 100 feet of snow and debris. The slides happened in an area well-known...
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