Here's a video clip of someone opening the door to their dorm at McMurdo Station in Antartica during a condition 1 situation. I can soooo identify with this having spent a winter in Alert, Nunavut in 1989/1990.I especially smiled at the woman's insane laugh just before she opens the door, as if she was revelling in the fact that she is about to unleash hell having already experienced it before.
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I lived in Barrow, Alaska for 9 years, it got cold but not that cold we never had a level 1 do not travel type alert.
In Alert, the buildings separate from the main complex have ropes that get tied to the nearest main complex door when bad weather is approaching. That's so if the weather gets really bad before you had a chance to walk across the road to the main complex, you can use the rope to hang on to. That way, you won't blow away and the lack of visibility won't hamper your efforts to get to the complex. Because even though the distance might only be 75 feet, you'd never make it without the rope.
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