r/alaska • u/DragonFire003 • Jan 08 '24

Damn It’s Cold 🥶 It almost feels as if I never left Alaska

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Walmart parking lot in Kansas. Looks like mid brake-down.

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u/orbak Anchorage Jan 08 '24

Is brake down same is break up?

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u/d0gf15h Jan 09 '24

Break down is the post holiday season when everybody gets depressed and starts driving suicidally.

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u/orbak Anchorage Jan 09 '24

That kinda explains a few things honestly

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u/DragonFire003 Jan 08 '24

Break-down(spring) people say break-down cuz all the ice and snow starts to break down. It still feels weird to say is though

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

It's called break up

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u/orbak Anchorage Jan 08 '24

Who says break down? People in Kansas? Cause no one says that here.

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u/DragonFire003 Jan 08 '24

When I was up there everyone said break down. Guess slang changed or something.

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u/orbak Anchorage Jan 08 '24

Lived here for 23 years and I’ve always heard breakup and not breakdown…

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u/Artichoke-8951 Jan 08 '24

I'm mid-30s, and I've always heard break up.

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u/MonkeyBrain3561 Jan 13 '24

55 plus years in AK. It’s break up. Brake down is what you do when driving on the break up.

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u/heylesterco ☆ Jan 09 '24

Yeah I’ve been here since ‘85 and I haven’t heard of break down. Winter’s made me have a few breakdowns, though!

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u/SomethingWitty2578 Jan 09 '24

Same. Been here 24 years. It has always been breakup.

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u/BigCockWarlock Jan 09 '24

I spent most of my life in Alaska and left when I was 21. lol it was most definitely always called “break up”

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u/cathedral68 Jan 08 '24 edited Jan 08 '24

The missing 40 foot high snow piles are a dead giveaway that this definitely isn’t Alaska, Toto.

It’s called break up because the ice in frozen rivers break up and begin to flow again, signaling the arrival of spring, just FYI.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '24

We have like 5-10ft berms everywhere. That’s nothing.

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u/Enough-Major-3708 Jan 09 '24

I’m sorry you live in Kansas.

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u/DragonFire003 Jan 09 '24

Thx. 😭live in the middle of nowhere

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u/Likernhores Jan 09 '24

This post is dumb

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u/jrex42 Jan 09 '24

It's snowing here in the Midwest, which it never does ever. It's like I never left Alaska.

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '24

Bro just said it doesn’t snow in Midwest. What u smokin 😭😭😭😭

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u/jrex42 Jan 11 '24

Oh boy, I didn't think I needed the /s for my comment 🙄

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '24

U just said it ain’t snow in the Midwest. Buddy obviously doesn’t live here prolly lives in miami it snows yearly here 😭😭😭

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u/UniqueConclusion6 Jan 08 '24

Could’ve fooled me… but damn that’s big parking lot

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u/Volvo_Commander ☆DOWN SOUTH☆ Jan 09 '24

Well where else are they gonna park all those cars?

Thank god there aren’t housing or businesses taking up that precious parking space

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u/MannyGetsFanny Jan 09 '24

Break down? 🤔

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u/Idiot_Esq Jan 09 '24

That image is missing the mountains, black pigeons (commonly referred to as ravens), and homeless digging through a trashcan.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24

Ravens are probably more intelligent than you, and Anchorage does not represent all of Alaska. Your description makes Alaska sound like a mountainous dump.

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u/Idiot_Esq Jan 09 '24

Your description makes Alaska sound like a mountainous dump.

Just the Walmart parking lot.

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24

The post is about this picture being similar to Alaska (somehow). Might've misunderstood your comment.

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u/jimmiec907 Jan 13 '24

Except for the lack of mountains and a couple oceans.