On Thursday evening, I drove down to Anchorage to pick up my wife at the airport as she was returning from visiting her family in the Lower 48. On that drive, when one arrives in Anchorage, you drive west on 6th Avenue, and this time I noticed that the big homeless Bidenville tent city across from Merrill Field airport appears to have been largely cleaned up. That’s probably for the best because not only was that tent city unsightly, with people sleeping on the ground and trash strewn about, but in Alaska, these encampments have the added feature of being veritable bear magnets – and both black bears and grizzlies are known to frequent the area. Just as a reminder, grizzlies in particular are no joke: they are 500-pound meat missiles that can rip the door off a Super Duty pickup, can smell a decaying sandwich from a mile away, and are not afraid of anything that walks on two or four…
Homeless Alaskans More Likely to Suffer Cold-Related Injuries. Who Knew? – RedState
