Find a red can, purchase a ticket, make your best guess for the Nenana Ice Classic, and win big!
The Nenana Ice Classic is an annual event that takes place in Nenana, Alaska. It is a guessing game where people try to predict the exact time when the ice on the Tanana River will break up in the spring. Participants purchase tickets for a small fee and guess the month, day, hour, ...
In Alaska, spring means betting in the Nenana Ice Classic
The Nenana Ice Classic: Betting on Warming http://www.john-daly.com/nenana.htm A fantastic detective job! I never occurred to me that a river could be an extended conduit for an urban heat sink. In fact, I can't recall ever seeing such a conjecture in print before. Any large city,...
Nenana Ice Classic: Final Update(9 May 2001) The ice on the Tanana River at Nenana, Alaska, finally broke on 8th May at 1:00 p.m.(Alaska time). It was a tense several hours as the tripod which had fallen over a few days ago, but remained held by the ice, shifted 90 feet in ...
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