Break-Up Blues!

We have a fifth Season in Alaska!

Colors are Brown and white!

Picture by K. Fields

Alaskan’s “laughingly” or “*!#*!” refer to this season as "Break-Up".
It is the messiest time of the year! When the snow starts melting.

Everybody’s Cars and Trucks are the same color! Picture by K. Fields

There is thick soft mud every where you go! The Pot-Holes are huge…and the roads are washboard like and slippery!

Washboard road! Picture by K. Fields

The tires of heavier vehicles leave deep ruts that will stay that way when the roads dry up, making them hard to maneuver through!

Rutted Roads! Picture By K. Fields

You can’t avoid the puddles, because they fill the whole road! And can be very deep! You can end up stuck in the middle of one of these puddles! This is experience talking! I have had to remove my shoes, roll up my pant legs and wade through the water to get help to get my car out of the hole under the water on the road! I have to tell you, it wasn’t funny at the time, but when I think of how I looked then, it sends me into a fit of giggles.

What's lurking under that Puddle? Picture by K. Fields

There is flash flooding! Whole sections of roads can be completely washed away!

Beautiful House Flooded by River Course Change! Picture by K. Fields

The Very Large Meandering Rivers we in Alaska, can decide to change course in the Spring, leaving whole sections of forested areas, homes, and roads flooded.

Forest Area Flooded by Natural River Course Change

Picture by K. Fields

There are a lot of Alaskan’s that plan their vacations out of State this time of the year!
Extreme cold in the winter season (-55 F) can’t budge them, but the break-up blues season has them packing up and headed to anyplace but here!

My Cure for the Spring Break-Up Blues, I went and bought a tray of flowers to plant in my planters outside, the minute it is warm enough, hopefully in a couple of weeks... Yippee!!

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