me, how does it affect the shutdown? most of the data is coming from the next. it is considered one of those things at a high enough level, it is a necessity. people are still working. they re getting the forecasts out there. essential operations are closed. people aren t getting paychecks. our research and development has been postponed. so we have one new computer modem that will compete and that will be postponed. that was hoping to come in, in february. that will be later now. also the hurricane season preparedness training is on hold, our climate data, finding out how warm it was for 2018 and the globe across our country. that data and reports will be unavailable until the government goes back up and the funding returns to nooaa. we have northern portions of new england. be careful driving on the freeway. lake and snow machines will be on. for our friends early on the
them. the hard-core athletic events .1 and involves snow dogs or snow machines across alaska. about the things that toughen you up and let you know if you can accomplish things like those endurance events, you can put up with anything. todd hurt himself, in one of these events, didn t he. yes, they crash a lot and he had a major crash but he s still out racing, doing his thing. that s why he s not here today because the snow is still really good in alaska. good in terms of its deep and you can still do a lot of things in the snow. and something took place in a recent bill, and i know you were fighting for it and that is more drilling. tell us about that.
them. the hard-core athletic events .1 and involves snow dogs or snow machines across alaska. about the things that toughen you up and let you know if you can accomplish things like those endurance events, you can put up with anything. todd hurt himself, in one of these events, didn t he. yes, they crash a lot and he had a major crash but he s still out racing, doing his thing. that s why he s not here today because the snow is still really good in alaska. good in terms of its deep and you can still do a lot of things in the snow. and something took place in a recent bill, and i know you were fighting for it and that is more drilling. tell us about that.
without the women preparing the boat. it takes everybody. wouldn t it be easier to just buy a boat? the way they re doing it is the way the inupiaq people have done it for thousands of years, and they want to adhere to their traditions as much as possible. you re a native alaskan, correct? yes, sir. i grew up in the interior of alaska. so i grew up in the alaskan culture. winipaqs are on the coast. they re the eskimos. we re the indians. the athabascan. i m half athabascan. oh. so even though you re from a different culture, you re from the interior. they ve accepted you up here and take you whaling? yes. the way we live is not that much different from the way they live here. togetherness. we live as a community, and we want to adhere to the old ways. that s a big thing about this community, i m learning is that certainly you see people with cars and on snow machines and cell phones and ipads. but clearly there s an effort to keep a foot in the past with traditions.
no, no, no. no, no, no. wait a minute, the way you keep laughing, c.j., i feel like it might be a bad idea. i ll wait for you to come back. you re going to wait for me. i appreciate that. in my conversation with mike schultz, he spoke of how the native people of barrow are losing their traditions. i discovered no better example of this than dog sledding. hello. and i m here at the home of geoff carroll, the last musher in town, which sounds like a great title for a disney movie. you are the last dog sledder in barrow. yes. sad but true. kind of slowly whittled down over the years. only running team in barrow at this point. how long have you lived in barrow? since 1986. so when you got here in 86, were there other dog sledders? yeah, other teams. lots of guys who spent half their lives rung dogs but they kind of switched over to snow machines. i hope you don t take this