Storm

The forecast storm hit us yesterday and continues today. We managed to do a bit of work yesterday morning getting the weather station up and running and putting the power cable up on sticks so it doesn't get run over by a Skidoo or the airport bulldozer. We got allot of the gear in the Weather Haven sorted into boxes and labelled so we can have a chance of finding stuff. Getting into and out of the Weather Haven became a bit of a struggle as the door drifts up in minutes. It opens outwards, so 30 minutes or so after you are inside you can't open the door to get out and have to have someone outside digging or go out the back though the emergency zipper.

The wind really picked up last night gusting to over 80kms and so getting to the containers from the Hilton last night was quite an experience with visibility down to 6m in the driving snow. It's easy to get lost just a few meters from the buildings so we have to go in convoy for safety. We had to dig each door out, but once inside we were warm with our new power to the heaters.

This morning took us 30mins to get back to the Hilton from the containers. We had to dig our way out of our containers through the night's snow.  The front of the Hilton had a huge 3m high drift all along it, so we had to climb over and down to the doorway and dig our way into it. Not a day for any kind of camp work today.