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Fuel Shortage Hits Nome, Alaska

Russian oil tanker stuck in Arctic ice

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The residents of Nome, Alaska are facing a possible fuel crisis temperatures as a series of shipping mishaps has left the community without its normal fall delivery and temperatures have dropped to minus 40 degrees Fahrenheit. A Russian tanker carrying an emergency supply of is foundering in Arctic ice 140 miles from Nome, and the town could lose power as early as March. Bad weather , after which the Alaskan legislature approved an experimental delivery from the Russian tanker. Nome is perhaps most famous for the 1925 diphtheria outbreak that inspired the Iditerod dog sled race.

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