The Warmest Village in Alaska
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- Опубліковано 14 лют 2012
- And you think your crew and supply logistics are tough to manage... we're out in the bush- in Goodnews Bay, Alaska on a rare sunny day. WxTV is going to show you weatherization in a remote Yup'ik Eskimo village on the Bering Sea where everything is unique. From shipping supplies in on a barge, to hiring crew members from the local village down to the measures installed to keep these residents warm during the brutal Alaskan winters.
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It's awesome people are still willing and able to live in these small communities. The work being done helps a lot, I'm sure.
Being alone is more desired then you robotic city people think lmao
When I lived up there in the 1970's the only electric we had was a 2 cylinder generator that we only cranked up on special times like holidays, birthday, family visiting from lower 48 or something like that. We had a oil heater, dry cabin no electric except our personal generator. We used Coleman lanterns for light and only a battery powered radio for entertainment, but still enjoyed living in there more than anything. I was 15 years old when I lived there one of the best times of my life.
Will you go back?
Wow i can only imagine, awesome.
When U were Peeing. Does The Pee Froze ?
jedediahbc when your everyday is preparation for surviving you really appreciate later in life to turn a knob and get hot water.
@@williamtate6268 was that a reference to ayush's comment lol.
Joking aside I completely agree that the early days of struggle are the best to the aforementioned thread
New to Nome, and I love it here, coming from San Diego cal. The people are great. The whole experience is just wonderful. I plan to live here till I'm gone. Its a refreshing new life. Thank you Nome for being real
carol strickling Nome is my favorite bush town. I worked at the Tin City radar site near there and also 50 miles outside of Nome at Pilgrim Hot Springs.
is Nome Cold ?
i hate the cold
lite codes It is, but not as cold as you would think. I worked at a camp near Nome called Pilgrim Hot Springs August to early November 2013. Only two snows and they melted within a day. But it rained almost every day.
Awesome 👍 😁 love ❤️ Cooper Landing Alaska
I grew up in bush Alaska too and almost everything was subsistence and things like chicken or beef was at a special occasion and the grocery store in dillingham was like Disneyland for me as a kid it was great, unfortunately I have a hard time as an adult to find full time year round work so I couldn't afford to raise my family there , it was something though running the dog team to the mission every 4-5 days for water and hunting all the time it seemed like wether for us or an elder in the village
Thank you so very much to whomever filmed this all and produced this video!!! This is the second time I’ve watched it… The first time was quite a while ago… Enjoyed this even a lot more the second time around! Of course, I was rewinding it a lot! So I could catch everything and study it! I’ve lived in Alaska up until the fall of 2002!!! I had lived in Alaska for 16 years, and my husband had for 21 years… My older son had lived up there 16 years also. Then my younger son was born up there in Palmer, and we all moved down, my husband first going down in May, 2002, with the oldest boy for jobs. I stayed up there in Wasilla, where our house had been… I helped get the house sold and packed up and did repairs on the house, etc. We rented a U-Haul truck which our Bishop packed for us! So my 10-year-old son at the time and our cat, with me, Mom, along with all of our possessions left in our U-Haul truck for the lower 48! To join the husband and the other son! Great experience having lived in Alaska for quite a while! And so much fun also driving up and down the Alcan!!! (Alaska/Canadian highway) we had lived in Palmer and Wasilla Alaska… I lived just a short while in Anchorage. Thanks again for an excellent video!
Cool video. Thanks for a small glimpse into the difficulties of living in the far north. Amazing people to survive and thrive there.
spent all the taxpayer money for insulation on booze...
And that is the warmest part of Alaska. Just imagine the coldest part.
I see the attraction of living there. It is very peaceful, away from the hustle and bustle of large, heavily populated cities, but it's remote isolation means that everything has to be flown or barged in only three or four times a year, when the weather is reasonable. The cost of living there is, therefore, astronomically high and the prices of food and other things are far more expensive than in mainland cities. There is also no hospital in sight. What happens if someone falls seriously ill?
Good on ya bro!! A major satisfaction in helping people! Clean living, no pollution from cars, quiet and probably more down to earth people up there. Simple way of life!!
Very informative video!!! great view!
Surprised that it gets that cold there, being right on the coast like that. I could see 30-40 below occasionally; it is still Alaska, but for "weeks at a time?" Sounds a lot more like inland Alaska than coastal Alaska. Especially for the west coast.
Such a down to earth little film best wishes to all you guys n gals
Goodnews Bay. My childhood hometown
You guys should be using Closed cell spray foam for the whole house, eliminate all the air leakage and wind blown snow etc. Just spray 2" over the whole existing building and coat with a roofing coating. Basically would look like a rectangular igloo.
I wonder who produced the score for this documentary. I enjoyed the music as they made their journey via plane.
I want to move there.. It's beautiful..
unbelievably crazy how many people trashed this one video as gospel. Alaska is such a diverse place i can't understand how some of you make it like its heel or something. the cost of living varies according to share you are
i love that plant at the minute 11:20
Hahahahaha big buds on it.
I spotted one at 10:51 and commented lol. Ill check out 11:20..
Awesome video. I'd love to get away from the regular world which is horrible for you in every way and go live how I feel like is more important to people as a whole. Closer communities, you learn more and can maintain without being in the system. I'd give anything to go live there
A beautiful well done video. Haunting music.
I want to move to Alaska in the future and this looks like a pretty nice place to be. It might not be for everyone but that doesnt make it a bad place to live.
People don't understand until they have lived in their shoes.
Mukluks. Its too cold for shoes here.
Wow, what a cool adventure you took us on. Thanks a lot. Nice beard btw. Those bugs buzzing around were crazy. Is that common in all Alaska?
Cowboy Geologist yes! The bugs are huge, it’s a joke that the mosquito is the state bird
I like your blog well explanation. Coldest region.White snow land.look like paradise of world.Its a heaven .you see most of the igloo there .Eskimoes lived there.Dont pollution in this region.give the gift coming generation.
Hello Alaska friend👋😳 I like the peoples from Alaska "They're very friendly I lived there before
Where are the windmills?
What about some wind turbines built outta site to provide energy for the village maybe be cheaper.Could they possible be constructed or homemade to be cheaper. How would solar do?
solar woudln't work when you need it most consider how much darkness there is during the winter months. Most of the populated areas of state are covered in overcast and/or near steady rain a lot of the summer months too. There are exceptions such as in the interior but most people live near water and mountains and that means solar won't work due to limited sun
what kind of job pays enough to live there
Show us more !" Be an inspiration,.for America...👍
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Are you still working on houses there if so how do I go about getting a job there have 15 years experience building houses and 10 years experience doing concrete work
Now wonder it's so cold there in Alaska, The winds are too fast
Isn't high-speed wind power like Icewind plus tesla style batteries cheaper than shipping fuel in and subsidising?
There not worried about the cost it cost them nothing you the tax payer pays for there needs do your research !
got two love the land just think if you put a windmill in free power grow in doors they do it in the Norwegian arctic think you all should get a free trip two Hawaii just for living there iam wearied i loved it spent a few years up there
What about the Tlingits? Does anyone remember the “Blanket Party?
When it is all said and done, are the locals capable of keeping things running by fixing the problems that may arise? Another question. Could the houses be built in sections in the lower 48 and shipped to be put together on site?
You DO realize the shipping cost would be 2 to 3 times what the house costs ?
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Great work! School house next?
is Wxtv funded by the government or are you a siingle company? What other states do you come to, southern US? thanks!
What kind of bugs are those flying around the camera? Must be tough bugs for that climate!
John D There are actually mosquitos and other biting insects.. they kind of just adapted to being up there
Once the temps drop, you won't see one bug for months! When it starts getting warmer an the upper layer of the dirt thaws, there are more biting bugs that you can imagine! What you were seeing there was actually mild!
I’ve done about a month and a half of -40/+- in N MN weather, multiple times. It has many similarities to Alaska. The Great Lake may play a part in it? If you don’t like that idea of living, we’re fine if you pick another place. “MN nice” is real, but isn’t bottomless. 🤔😁
Where is the school for the kids?
I see the giant bugs flying around!
Iam so glad I live in Florida
I rather live in a warm climate such as Florida,than freeze in Alaska.
Now they just need an inventor or engineer to pick up the challenge of inventing, building and installing, testing a very small windmill that can survive and even thrive in 105 mph winds that are compact as can be and can be installed on each home so they can provide their own free electricity to each house. Sad to see not a windmill in sight with all of that potential. When I found out that the large (180 feet in dia. 3 blade system) of GE actually shut down in high winds and also took a minimum amount of wind to get them going..... I simply said in under a minute to my brother, they need to put in a transmission for it so it can monitor itself and protect itself from the damage of high winds. Now they have them. What a great potential testing ground for a new start up company and a challenge to boot!. I hope the right folks get this message and make it happen.
Fuck that was depressing. These guys are doing a great thing helping these villages. You think you’ve heard about all the hardships then you see the prices at the only store. I thought I felt bad for kids growing up in the Dakotas. This is isolation.
The government of Alaska should help those vellegers to build strong houses.
Believe me there are huge quantities of government funds poured into these villages. Who do you think is paying for the project featured in the video?
Look at the nice houses of Nuuk or Svalbard for comparison.
Man..old school. Build big sheds...but damn one day of sun. And soffit vents with ridge vent...would be better I'd think
hoi mg I want to go there .
We want to see beutiful village of Alaska
If the average electric bill is between $600 and $1,000 a month, what are they doing to earn a living there?
They live off the sea and oil revenues, which is about $4,500 per year rebate. That's for everyone in the state of Alaska.
leegenix Yes, I've heard that but sadly... not for long apparently
The oil money to the state has been plundered... so the "oil party" is almost over.
sure....? govement support ?
They get Dividends from there corporations depending on which corporation you’re from and how many shares you have some of them get quite a bit of money.
I understand why it's so expensive to live in rural Alaska -- but do you need to live there? What benefit is it to anyone else to subsidize your expenses in living on the edge? I'm asking seriously and respectfully -- I hope that comes across -- if not, I apologize for being offensive in how I ask my questions.
I lived in the High Desert, South of Las Vegas, Nevada years ago. There were little to no stores or a gas station. Everything had to be delivered from Las Vegas every week.In 1988 I moved a single wide mobile home there and the next morning there was snow on the ground.I had a large opening where the Add On room was to be attached later. I learned very quick that winter to be self reliant and how to be a Fixer Upper.
@ Yelloworangered You could pose that same question to people living in most major cites. It's very expensive to live in New York City too and generally NYC produces nothing, but garbage, sewerage and air pollution. I mean mostly they just sit around in concrete boxes using imported resources and complaining about how they deserve more.
Because we are indigenous to the area. My ancestors have lived here for who knows how long before up until now.
do you think your urban highways and road constructions, bridges, streetlights, and municipal services (police, fire, hospitals, whateveR), are self supporting and not funded by public dollars? what about the millions on millions of urban welfare recipients and public housing projects?
You’re right but you forget where you’re posting. You probably stumbled on this like me. These guys like this. Or at least the idea of it.
11:00 minutes in...hes kneeling beside a pretty chunky pot plant.....ah Alaska!
Isn't that the weed that's not that strong i think is called wild weed
That's wormwood 💀
Why build that close too water ? Confused on that . Looks as if houses should of been built back up the hill
Why build in New Orleans? Why build in Houston? Why build aling the coast in FL? Why do people live on islands? BECAUSE humans have built close to water since we have existed on this planet.
So just continue doing the same. That's how we always did.
put shutters on the windows,keep the cold out.
Warmest, 😄yup and I'm Chinese.
Stay happy and healthy brotha!
Holy crap today is 20 degrees in the part of massahuesetts I live in and quite frankly im frezzing to death. I cant imagine -40. How do you even step outside without dying. I know you wear a ton of layers. But I do that up here and its just about unbearable in winter.
They use a lot of seal oil in their cooking. Seal oil is a natural to aid the body to fight off the cold.
I’m originally from Sturbridge Ma and now reside in Alaska, the cold in Ma is a humid cold where the cold at 20° feels like -20. The cold in Ma goes right threw your close. In Alaska it’s a dry cold 20° feels like20. -10 feels like your in a walk in freezer. It’s dry and cold but tolerable. Just dress in a few layers and your good.
Too bad they don't have a large green house to grow greens for their village. Seed are light to ship. Paint the houses bright colours like Denmark, Sweden
I couldn't tolerate the cold
super genial video , merecido likazooo!!! saludos de familia gamer, todos somos familia
As you can see all the area they mention is tribes..all AK residenrs get a yearly check from the state due to the oil companies...
+cake slicer its the best
cool
If there is so much wind, why not put in some windmills?
To live there is to live in poverty! I am thankful for my nice home in the south, however if I lived there I would still have plenty to be thankful for.
Yet NO windmills.
I think wind turbines to generate electricity would be a great idea for that area. And I'd much rather see the Feds help these people out more than the Katrina victims where everyone is on welfare and live under sea level.
Fast winds brake wind turbines, this would make a HORRIBLE spot for a wind farm. Slow, steady and reliable look for that.
But not if a design plan is implemented for a low center of gravity Stainless Steel housing mounted turbine
The winds are too high and too fast for wind mills....... terrible idea in general at this location
Someone should design smaller robust turbines designed for high wind areas.
alcoholism is a big problem under natives in canada and america too,
and ofcours modern influences messedup their culture and the way of living young people arent intressted in the old ways and leave ,so a village filled with elders and no young people is common
+S Dew , Alcoholism is common with all Native tribes, always has been, since before the Europeans came here. The tribes already had their own alcohol, Cherokees, my ancestors/ people, made beer from a honey locust, and black locust, trees, trees that put off a pod full of sugar-y liquid that ferments. The black locust was used to make cough syrup, the honey locust to make beer. The reason many think alcoholism is high in tribes is that they are all diabetics, or hypoglycemic.
I live there
+Shawn Xavier How is it?
Wow
Probably want to look into a wind farm.
It's a complicated issue. But the government perpetual paying for the remote "subsistence" lifestyle for a few is not fair to everyone else, long term considering the $amount of money spent in the villages. What the people of Goodnews should do is use their Village Co-op and contact a commercial bottled water company and bottle the water from the Goodnews river, 10 miles or so upstream, and market it with their village name, worldwide. It is the best water I ever tasted. That way they would have some income of their own, that right now is just flowing into the ocean. In fact that is what the Regional Co-operations should do, market their water according to village name.
It's fair if the few you're referring to are mostly indigenous peoples.
Douggg1000 it's okay for the Great State of Alaska to "perpetually" fund its own communities of colonization, BUT LEAVE OUT its indigenous communities, for State Projects? What kind of a community do you think Alaskan people are as a WHOLE, and how do you think it SHOULD BE? If you don't like it so much, come in then and become involved in Alaska policies to see if you can try to prevent that from happening anymore so a LOT LESS of your perpetually snotty jealous-sounding- of- Native people/communities-comments from individuals like yourself could become heard a LOT LESS! HOW does THAT SOUND???
uh, I lived in Alaska around 20 years. I have traveled all over the state, from Gambell on St Lawrence Island, to Nunivak Island, to Cold Bay, to Ketchican, to Prudoe bay, Selawik, Huslia, Nome, Dillingham, Bethel, Hooper Bay, I have stayed in many villages for a couple of months each. I have spent two and three week solo float trips down the Kobuk, the Good news, the Aniak, the Kanetok, the Kisaralik, the Wood-Tichiks, upper and lower, circled around Lake Illiamna, lived on the Kenai R., the Kenai Reserve lakes, canoeing and kayaking, I lived in Anchorage as well. I am familiar with village life, and twin engine otters, skyvans, and 207's. One of the native elders who I rented his son's house from for a couple of months gave me a native name as a gesture - KopKana (spelling I am not sure of). I said it was complicated issue. There are plenty of homeless outside of native villages that would love to have what native have, housing-wise. How much do you think those schools and teaches costs for the handful of students in the villages? Natives are in a difficult situation, they are kinda stuck, but so is everyone else.
How do I think it should be? Subsistence changed from racially based to consumption based, consumption must be within ten miles of the kill, to accommodate natives in the villages, which have few non-natives, except for schoolteachers. Commercial fishing changed to only Alaskans and in certain areas like the Kuskokwim downsize the vessels to a maximum size of maybe 25 feet to allow for predominantly native fisherman, but racism not being in the rules.
Also get rid of the racism of the Native only Hospitals. Medical treatment funded for natives, yes, but not segregation, everyone goes to the same hospitals together.
Why don't I come to Alaska, be involved, and change the policies you ask? It is because I am 68 years old, have lived here down in the lower 48 for the past 17 years, taking care of my elderly parents, who my mother recently passed away, and my father is also gone, and have higher priorities than solving the problems in Alaska -
which for me running the race in my life is close to Jesus coming soon and his reward is with him. Nothing is going to be right in the world until Jesus returns and the Kingdom of God being the ruling power on earth - which then if the Lord is willing, He may decide put me over Alaska. Do you plan on being there in a resurrected/or translated incorruptible body? There is no native, non native, in Christ.
Moving water is often not profitable most water sold in bottles comes from the tap. In the netherlands the tap has a higher quality than bottled...
With transport being expensive in Alaska i doubt bottling water will be profitable but i've never been in Alaska..
The villages a big portion of the them are near the coast and have fuel barged in. Those barges leave empty. Instead, of leaving empty, fill them full of bottled water cases. Small bottling plants setup in every village, which would give jobs to locals (which would be mostly natives0 and some income. Alaska native organizations should be the action group in making it happen, for the villages in the state, where there is good tasting water to be exported.. There is plenty of good tasting water in Alaska... that is just flowing out into the ocean.
Best thing that ever happened to Eskimos was Alaska becoming a state.
No it wasn't, kussaqs came and brought drugs and alcohol taking our friends and family. They would kill someone or die. There are 7 or 8 yr olds chewing or smoking. And plus kussaqs are making yupik languages diminish. And you think that Alaska becoming a state is wonderful. Why don't you come and live here and see how it is.
Spooky music.
With all that wind, a wind turbine would be sufficient??
Only because I seen that the cost of their utilities are outrageous!
Off the shelf wind turbines don't cope well with real strong winds.......
it's great cake slicer
why you guy make the home by container shipping metal, live forever??? wammer??
The YT algorithm has a fetish for 2012.
Windmills you'd think that all you'd see are wind mills
When will an investor or developer boldly develop another Las Vegas there...?
hello i am in the process of building a shed out of pallets everything is use is reclaim any ideas about materials i can use for insulation
good new bay, thanks govemnet USA help people move to live...
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The background music killed this otherwise good video
It there is that much wind the government should put up one large wind turbine
Isnt Alaska the only state in the US of A that pays its residents to live there? Dam thats better then being taxed to live on your own land .
We pay out the ass to live here, so it's not a net gain. It's much cheaper to live in the lower 48 in taxed states.
pay them to live there? have you been watching the simpsons again? This year the pfd is $1600. let's see you make that go a year when a watermelon is $12.
Permafrost can go down feet. When it thaws its mud. No good for foundations. Underground no alternative apparently. Would make since.
Are you saying a metal truck container underground would just keep sinking even with a gravel base?
Not for sure but I think the ice would cave in the walls. Why do they not have basements or foundations.
Wherevcsn they get gravel??
Where can they get gravel??
I know frost in Maine requires reinforcement in easements otherwise they cave in.
we hope the people USA they will move this place , i like, if govemont built more trees some and make road s...
you would think with the rampant global warming that you could get rid of those heaters and such, but you say no? Strange
Yeah...any time the temperature drops down below -30F, you know there's
way too much global warming going on. 😂
ALWAYS SUNNY HERE! its not rare
i like simple life
These people they live in the world / city you can have it
I hate 2 things about Alaska
1. cold
2. cost of live here
alaskanspartan89 Why is your name Alaskanspartan89?
Wizzard-Heimer-001 1. Im native Alaskan 2. I like god of war 3. I was born in 1989
+alaskanspartan89 if you have to fly or ship everything in by boat things get expensive!
and those gas prices and fuel prices werent that high come to my country the fuel and gas price will shock you!!!
S Dew What country do you live in?
you get some education and then you can move to the lower states.
Again with the loud background noise.
go to Chefornak
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Someone from US?
Jj
Verediana
I've been there and I sell Twiglets.
give em a bus ticket to California. they'd be happy to have them.
Wind turbines ??????
No offense here to anyone, but it looks to me like they would be much better off in the long run to start from scratch. Just my opinion.
5 minute intro?
Seems somewhat abandoned and escaped