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Week of blizzards leaves shelves bare in some Nunavut stores


Misc CDN | 206548 hits | Jan 22 8:31 am | Posted by: WDHIII
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A succession of blizzards over the last week in Nunavut's Kivalliq region has left grocery store shelves nearly bare in at least three communities.

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  1. by Anonymous
    Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:04 pm
    Looks like I got out just in time!

  2. by Anonymous
    Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:08 pm
    Please be advised that the weather in Meadowbank continues to hinder all operations on site.the. Storms are into the 7th day of this. We have no outside contact other than phones and emails. People are trapped in Thompson, Yellowknife, Winnipeg. Please be patient about your return to work, I am doing all that can be done at this time. The plan is to bring 6 more to the site as soon as weather permits, and have a full replacement crew ready for the 5th of February. I understand your concerns and we are doing the best we can to bring all employees back to the site as soon as possible. Please be patient and Thank you.







    Miller time! 8)

  3. by avatar martin14
    Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:13 pm
    There's completely no bread. No frozen food either, frozen meat, frozen juice … eggs and cigarettes."


    well its not so bad.. at least they still got ciggies :)

  4. by Anonymous
    Tue Jan 22, 2008 7:04 pm
    "martin14" said
    There's completely no bread. No frozen food either, frozen meat, frozen juice … eggs and cigarettes."


    well its not so bad.. at least they still got ciggies :)


    The frozen food would have been the first to go,they love fast food.

    Everyone smokes,even the kids,thats one thing they would never run out of.

    Most of those towns have a community meat bank where the hunters take their excess game so no one would ever starve.

    Everything has to come in by plane,theres no roads to any of those towns.The northern store in Baker is probably scrapeing off the ice for a hercules to land as I type this as the only airstrip that can take a 707 is Rankin.

  5. by Anonymous
    Tue Jan 22, 2008 8:34 pm
    I left Jan. 8th and there was about 70 people heading to camp,mostly office staff.Most are from Quebec and think of this as an adventure.I bet the adventure ended about day 3 of the blizzard.
    Welcome to the Arctic.
    From what I've heard the incinolater toilets(they electrocute and cook your steamer)are down and now their back to the old way....a 5 gallon bucket with a garbage bag in it. :lol: :lol: :lol:

    Those outdoor shitters sometimes get drifted in....on the inside!
    Hope they like the adventure,hope they got some seats for those shitters. :wink:

  6. by sasquatch2
    Wed Jan 23, 2008 7:08 am
    Something tells me that even the liberals there are pissed with Al Gore.

  7. by avatar ShepherdsDog
    Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:12 am
    Saw on the news that they expect a break tomorrow in the blizzard but then it's supposed to start blowing again........I got sunburned today. I'm going to play 18 holes tomorrow morning......ahhhh it's nice when classes break for a month during Chinese New Year.

  8. by Anonymous
    Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:57 am
    The blizzards scheduled to resume thursday. :lol:



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