Uh-oh

Well, the ice road has been closed for quite some time now, but the ferry isn't in the water yet, so Yellowknife is in it's twice yearly you-can-only-get-here-by-air time. The stores in town get around this by bringing lots of trucks up before the ice goes out and parking them in their parking lots, and Extra foods had boxes and boxes stacked way high on top of their shelves, it was like being in a warehouse.

Last year I remember Co-op almost running out of petrol, and now this year we are running out of jet fuel. We've been apparently limited to a certain amount every day, enough for medevacs and skeds. The Twins have been using fuel from the Tindi tank at the floatbase that was brought up to the airport. As for the thirsty Dashes, Diavik has been sending them down to Hay River to get fuel, and then come back to town, pick up the people and then fly them to site. Tomorrow there is a flight booked that we used the customer's fuel to fill the plane. Filling a Dash from drums isn't something you see everyday!

Last week there was a big military search and rescue exercise here, so there were three Hercules flying here for about a week, so it must have been them that used up all the fuel. Someone didn't think that through!

Anyway, I don't know if anyone thinks this is interesting or not, but it made the CBC website...