Quote Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah
WOW!!! After watching that, I'm sitting here freezing and I'm in sunny Florida!! Is it ever cold there! YIKES!! Seriously, do you ever have any warm weather there at all? If you don't mind answering, how did you end up there? I've heard that the Alaskan government pays some people to live there(something like that)and I can certainly see why
Prudhoe Bay gets up into the 70's in the summer. That is warm for us! Actually, that warm of weather causes some equipment problems. All of the equipment up here is made to run well in cold temperatures.

Now, I object to the term "end up there". I choose to live in Alaska because I love it. I absolutely hate hot weather. But many people who work in Prudhoe Bay commute from warmer places. One of the guys who runs the camp I live in lives in Miami. He flies up here to work for 4 weeks then flies home for 2 weeks.

Residents of Alaska are eligible for the Permanent Dividend Fund. It's like owning shares of stock in a large corporation. The proceeds of Alaska oil sales is invested in the stock market. We are the stockholders. So, every year, they do the calculations and the profits are divied up among all qualified (you have to have lived here at least a year) Alaskans. Last year we got about $1000 each. Here is some history on it if you're interested: http://www.apfc.org/homeObjects/tabPermFund.cfm