We are just days away from the winter solstice. Monday morning sunrise here at our house will be 10:16 AM. Sunset, 3:39 p.m. That means five hours and 37 minutes of full daylight. But we’ll be back in the sun soon enough. That wheel, I like to point out, never stops turning.
Meanwhile, Alaska is a place known for its wildlife, and I’m not talking about what happens in the local bars after 10:00pm, although it’s true that life can get pretty wild. No, I’m talking about (non-human) animals. We have deer that weigh the better part of a ton, we have bears the size of Volkswagens, and we have wolves and wolverines roaming the forests.
We have huge herds of ibex. From time to time, these stags make poor judgments. Case in point:
On November 28, 2025, at approximately 1737 p.m., AST responded to Point 253 of the Richardson Highway for a report of a motor vehicle collision. Investigations revealed that a pair of ibex made a bold decision to try to cross the road, which led to them colliding with a single vehicle. The car is disabled. Al-Walan did not survive their injuries.
Too bad about the caribou, hopefully the citizen’s vehicle is salvageable.
Alaska Man Points: 3 points for dry humor in the report: “The two lions did not survive their injuries.” Of course, the typical Alaskan response is, “I hope someone can save the meat.”
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Oh boy, hello, most of the Matanuska-Susitna Borough got hit by a wind storm last week – although it didn’t look like it hit us here, in Wasilla and Palmer, it was enough to assess Disaster declaration from Governor Dunleavy.
Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Tuesday issued a disaster declaration for the Matanuska-Susitna area to provide assistance to individuals and local governments affected by the recent three-day wind storm.
The declaration, requested by Mat-Su officials Tuesday afternoon, provides grants to individuals and families to make home repairs, secure temporary housing or meet other needs resulting from the weekend storm, according to a government news release sent Wednesday.
Details about how much money might be available or how individuals can apply will be provided “in the coming days,” the statement said.
Our part of the valley was lucky to be spared this nasty wind storm. The Susitna Valley, where we make our home, (like the Susitna River) runs roughly north to south. But on the other side of the Wasilla/Palmer area, the Matanuska River, the other great river for which our region is named, runs east to west, as does the Grand Canyon. This appears to be just a channeling of the prevailing winds, so when the winds blow noisily down this valley and leave it into the more open country to the west, they can be ferocious and can cover the area from the Neck River bridges to Big Lake Road. This appears to be what happened here.
Alaska Man Points: There is no result for this one. Let’s hope the disaster declaration helps people affected by this early winter blast recover.
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Now let’s talk about the weather.
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