Hey Alaska, Did someone forget to put the fire out?

[glenn kangiser]

http://www.adn.com/front/story/675887.html

Looks like things are heating up 106 miles SW from Anchorage.

[rwanders]

It would even colder up here without our big firepits----we have over 40 active volcanoes in Alaska. I just bought some extra dust masks in case Mt Redoudt gets carried away. Everything up here tends to be sort of overdone----we have 33,000 miles of coastline (more than all the rest of the US) and over 10,000,000  lakes of 20 acres or larger----no one has ever counted the smaller ones. We're fond of threatening to split the state in half and making Texas the third biggest state.  Plus-----we definitely have the hottest governor!

[akemt]

Gotta love the land of fire and ice...I'm just glad I'm in the Panhandle.  Totally different country down here.  We once had to take our daughter to a medical specialist and for various reasons ended up going to Utah.  Our closest options were either Seattle or Anchorage.  I couldn't convince the doctor that it took just as long to fly to Anchorage on 747's from where I live as it does to fly to Salt Lake City.  LOL  Not to mention, medical care and accommodations were WAY cheaper in SLC. 

I do love the 1 mil lakes joke...poor minnesota.  They're less likely than a Texan to shoot me when mad.    Actually, shear ignorance about Alaska leads people to believe a great deal of propaganda nonsense.  It was a regular riot act when greenpeace came to SE Ak.  lol