KTUU.com | Alaska's news and information source | Stevens Village locked in by deep freeze of 60 below

Stevens Village locked in by deep freeze of 60 below

by Jill Burke
Tuesday, January 6, 2009

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- If you think it's been cold here, it's no match for people living in Stevens Village.

It sits on the Yukon River northwest of Fairbanks, and villagers say they've had a full week of temperatures at 60 below and colder.

It hasn't stopped kids there from going to school or playing outside, but it is getting tough for the villagers. Some people have run out of wood to heat their homes.

And with a lingering ice fog keeping planes out, food supplies are also running low.

Families there say they're sharing with one another to get through.

"One of the familes that fishes, she gave me a salmon and we've been eating on that for three days now, so we are just budgeting our food intake," said Deborah Brouillette, the post master in Stevens Village said in a phone interview.

A plane with mail and groceries is expected to make it in later this week.

Contact Jill Burke at jburke@ktuu.com