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What's an Aleut doing in Cordova, isn't that Ahtna country? How were fish for you guys this year? I'm neck deep in silvers over here in west Cook Inlet right now. Also happy to answer peoples' questions about Alaska/ns, especially those concerning law, politics and national parks up here as I have / do work(ed) in all of them.
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Kanine posted:How's the internet situation? Also I'm curious how health issues are handled, if someone is seriously injured do you call a medevac chopper? There is internet, but it's not always good. I am posting from a cabin in the wilderness right now on Hughesnet. It's slow, but I am also on SA fifty miles from a road of any kind. For health issues it depends where. If you're in Anchorage there is a level 2 trauma center, three hospitals, etc. If you need to see a super serious specialist, you go to Seattle. For instance, when my sister had cancer, we went back and forth to childrens' hospital in Seattle a lot. There may be better in state oncologists these days, but people still go outside for lots of things. Fairbanks, the Valley, and Juneau, it is similar. There are hospitals, but the more complex stuff gets escalated to Anchorage. Off the road system, aka in the bush, it's much spottier. In some communities you're lucky if you have a nurse. I have lived in places where I was the highest certified medical provider as an EMT. In other bush communities, the hubs like Kotz, Nome, Bethel, Dillingham, etc., there are doctors, primarily emergency or primary care. In the places without much in the way of medical professionals, there are a lot of flyouts. If you're in the bush there are pilots around, and if someone is so sick they have to go to the hospital whoever is on hand flies them. We also have a national guard pararescue squadron based out of Elmendorf. When people are in a bad way in an inaccessible place, the PJs often jump / helo them to help, at least when they are not deployed. It winds up being an advantageous use of their training budget.
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Aug 26, 2014 18:30
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Poop Cupcake posted:I was in Alaska staying with some friends in early July, in Meadow Lakes. It's a few minutes outside of Wasilla. Alaska is an incredibly beautiful state. Contrasting this was so much dubious quality construction up there. Unfinished plywood shacks next to hillsides that are visibly sliding down, inhabited buildings with partially collapsed roofs. My friends explained this as lack of code enforcement coupled with severe poverty in a lot of areas. How does the state handle these kinds of housing situations where buildings are in dangerous spots, aren't providing adequate protection from the elements, etc.? I'm from Wasilla originally, and no offense to your friend, but Meadow Lakes is a shithole even by Wasilla standards. It is 't even necessarily a case of code enforcement in many cases, as much as the lack of code. It is not much of an exaggeration to suggest that calling for more stringent zoning will g you called a communist in the Valley. As far as the poverty you saw in Meadow Lakes, it's pretty vanilla compared to much of the bush. In developed areas where property tax assessment and collection is established, people often lose these kinds of properties because they can't pay taxes, at least where the land has value. Elsewhere, it's spotty. There are a lot of people who live at the end of tiny roads, and it's hard for the state / borough to know whats going on there.
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Aug 26, 2014 18:43
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Poop Cupcake posted:They live all the way out there so they could afford a larger piece of property than they would have been able to get closer to Anchorage where one of them works. The house and the neighborhood they're in is comfortable, but yeah once you start to get around you can see the falling apart shacks all over the place. One of them used to work with CPS up in Bethel and really hated it (the job and the city). I used to have a negative opinion of the state from all of the things I heard about the horrible child abuse and neglect that happens in some of these very rural areas. Every state is going to have these problems, but it seems like it's an extra challenge in Alaska due to how rural and isolated so many communities are. CPS in bethel is brutal. I clerked for a judge in western alaska and reams of insane alcohol fueled brutality came through the door. That isn't to say that defines life in rural alaska, but there is certainly some nasty stuff in remote places. Only so many troopers, lots of villages. The Russian community like the Old Russians on the Kenai? They're pretty insular anyway, current events don't change that. Normal Russian immigrants? Nobody cares I don't think.
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Aug 27, 2014 01:57
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Wang Flotilla posted:I can say from experience that Mr. Pibbleton is EXTREMELY hostile and VERY MUCH an rear end in a top hat and he's one of the best friends I've ever had, and yes I'm extremely distrustful of him using my bathroom. Yeah, didn't really think too much about Juneau. Wouldn't make much sense to fly someone to Anchorage for something they can't handle at bartlett. Only lived in Juneau a few months.
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