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    Default The Coast Guard gets some ink.

    A logistics debacle has left the community of Nome, Alaska, short on fuel but has provided some great photo ops for the USCG. Apparently there is someone under the DHS umbrella that can actually do something akin to their job description.


    Healy escorts Renda to Nome by U.S. Coast Guard.
    Last edited by ganulv; 01-11-2012 at 02:22 PM. Reason: typo fix
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    Default Siberia rescues Nome

    Good to know that the Alaskan-Siberian detente is alive and slowly moving to Nome. If this fails, what about those Siberian giant huskies hauling fuel on the sleds?

    I did note the heating fuel runs out in March, so some leeway.

    Next I suppose the Siberian super-icebreaker will appear to rescue the US Coast Guard, at that moment DHS will deny the USCG is anything to do with them and insist on scanning the ice-breaker once in US territorial waters for contraband reindeer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
    Next I suppose the Siberian super-icebreaker will appear to rescue the US Coast Guard, at that moment DHS will deny the USCG is anything to do with them and insist on scanning the ice-breaker once in US territorial waters for contraband reindeer.
    When DHS denies any knowledge I typically take them at their word.

    Good to know that the Alaskan-Siberian detente is alive and slowly moving to Nome. If this fails, what about those Siberian giant huskies hauling fuel on the sleds?
    Huskies are magnificent creatures, tough as nails and much more useful.
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    Default Hurrah! Russians with oil

    From the BBC, in a strictly commercial transaction:
    A Russian tanker delivering fuel to the Alaskan town of Nome, cut off by ice and extreme weather, has reached the western coastline of Alaska.
    Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16555840
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    Default Better than in Barrow, in any case.

    Quote Originally Posted by davidbfpo View Post
    From the BBC, in a strictly commercial transaction:

    Link:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16555840
    The ships are said to be about 6 miles (9.7km) offshore and crews are waiting for daylight - around 11:30 local time - to begin unloading the cargo, when the conditions are safer.
    Hopefully the unloading isn’t limited to daylight hours (all four of them at this time of the year).
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