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    So you think YOU'RE cold...

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    At approximately 7:00AM, on January 12, 2000 a Northbound Super-B-Train truck hauling diesel fuel crashed through the Mackenzie River ice crossing near Fort Providence. Both fuel tanks and the cab of the truck were left partially in the water and on the ice. The driver was treated for hypothermia at the nearby Fort Providence nursing station.

     

    The ice crossing had been open to light traffic only, up to a maximum of 4,000kg, (8,800 lbs) when the 60,000kg (132,000 lbs) + truck went through the ice. The crossing was immediately closed. Spill-response crews pumped the fuel out of the stranded tanker within 48hours. The truck itself was removed on January 15. RTL Robinson's Enterprises Ltd. of Yellowknife led recovery efforts that involved using small dynamite blasts to free the truck from the ice. RCMP and DOT officials were on hand for the recovery along with representatives from RWED and the federal departments of Indian and Northern Affairs and the Department of Fisheries. The ice road was reopened to light traffic on January 17 with a detour around the damaged area. Spray ice construction of the ice crossing continued to bring the road up to a standard for heavy traffic.

     

    That was actually a relatively happy ending. Many of the communities in the north do not have road access in the summer and a series of "winter roads" spring up when the lakes freeze over. Snow plows clear paths across the 100s of lakes in the territory. The mines, and especially the diamond mines, rely almost entirely on winter roads to get supplies in since the cost of moving stuff like heavy equipment and oil/gas by plane is ultra-expensive.

     

    http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http...hl%3Den%26lr%3D

     

    If you go too fast in an 18 wheeler, it creates a tidal wave effect and you can go through. Drives have died doing this - too terrifying to imagine.

     

    Winter%20Road%20(A).jpg

    So you think YOU'RE cold...

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    It can't be THAT cold - the lake isn't even frozen. :) But yeah, all that ice - it really sends a shiver.

     

    Reminds me that I lived in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories for 12 years. In the coldest months of the winter, vehicles cross the Mackenzie River by an ice road/ice bridge. I couldn't find any great pictures of "normal" traffic but here's a guy who didn't make it, closer to spring I suspect:

    2305462-Breakthrough-Yellowknife.jpg

    I learned while living there that the farenheit and celcius scales overlap at -40. A pretty remarkable place that more people should see (but mostly in the summer)

    Rosanne Cash's "Most Fun Live Performance That Wasn't Me"

    in Just A Fan

    Posted

    She was an absolute trooper that day. She came on at a time of day when many people had been sitting in the hot sun for a long time and many of them had had a lot to drink. On the other hand, it was still quiet enough that she could clearly hear their shouts/heckles. She was a pro (and it was a spectacular Wilco show so she's right about that too).

    The Jewel In Your Vinyl Crown

    in Someone Else's Song

    Posted

    Once during a discussion on VC I found out that I have a valuable copy of this album. Depending on the cover and pressing, this album is worth upwards of 7K. :shifty

    vjintrlx.jpg

    OK, given the $7k, this should be on my list too (I do have a copy).

     

    I also have a still-sealed copy of "Armed Forces" with the "Live at Hollywood High" single and the real Elvis at the El Mocambo album (only 500, promo only)

    So as it turns out...

    in Tongue-Tied Lightning

    Posted

    from the Days Of Our Lives update for November 16:

     

    Meanwhile, Marlena awakens in a luxurious cabin in the middle of nowhere. She is frightened by the sight of a man in a furry coat and hat standing over her with an ax. She threatens the man -- until he removes his hat, and we see it is Smokey Robinson! Smokey cares for Marlena and, eventually, sends an email to the Salem P.D. with Marlena's whereabouts. John takes the first plane out and is reunited with Marlena. They dance romantically as Smokey sings to them.

    Bob Dylan current tour

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Ottawa (technically Kanata), Novemeber 15

     

    Totally indifferent to audience for pretty much the entire show. The other thing that I hadn't really ever seen before was that the entire band was set up about 40 feet or so back from the front of the stage. There was a mike stand front stage centre but he never took it. Played keyboards all night. The other players who are, as other posters have already pointed out, just out of this world great, pretty much never take their eyes off him. He's not a band leader like James Brown but all the cues come from him. He grinned during "Ballad of a Thin Man" and totally fuckin smiled during "Summer Days"

     

    Maggie's Farm

    She Belongs To Me

    Watching The River Flow

    Just Like A Woman

    Highway 61 Revisited

    Ballad Of A Thin Man

    Rollin' And Tumblin'

    Simple Twist Of Fate

    High Water (For Charley Patton)

    Most Likely You Go Your Way (And I'll Go Mine)

    Tangled Up In Blue

    Nettie Moore

    Summer Days

     

    Thunder On The Mountain

    Like A Rolling Stone

    All Along The Watchtower

    The Hold Steady almost killed me....

    in After The Show

    Posted

    Craig gave me a beer when they came out for the encore at the Vancouver show :cheers

     

    how many of your favourite bands do that?

     

    and they rocked, of course.

     

    When I was up on stage in Ottawa (with about 25 of my new best friends), they let me take a beer out of a big bucket-o-beer. That was a first for me..

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