Emo is remote!!!

We have blasting winds so I am not getting many pictures up because of weak internet. I will keep trying to get pictures up. (The wind is shaking the apartment.)

What was amazing was how small the village of Emo is! We got in the plane and within seconds we were in open ice and snow! The yukon River is frozen and much bigger than what I see here in Emo. We are part of the Yukon Delta so there are other fingers like the one I live on. Any dark you see in the pictures is bushes. Sometimes, it is ice but there is very little dirt showing anywhere where I am presently living. There is also no open water - frozen solid.

A couple of teachers from smaller villages couldn't wait to go to a store with refrigeration, which they have in Alukanuk. Their towns have no fresh or frozen vegetables or fruit and the shelves are often bare. Whenever they go out of town, they have to buy groceries or they buy online from Anchorage.

Today's weather: I walked to the Post Office and got sand blasted by blowing snow. It feels like ice pellets hitting your face. it is also 20 below zero along with the 40+ MPH winds today!
GARBAGE UPDATE: The engine blew on the Garbage Truck. No more dumpsters until they get a new engine and get it installed. WE BORROWED THE SCHOOLS PICKUP AND TOOK A LOAD OF TEACHER'S GARBAGE TO THE DUMP!