I was looking at Google maps of Adak, AK. I believe this was the former Naval Air Station. It looks like Lego pieces from above, then you go to street view and it’s all abandoned with a few people living in them. I was wondering what the white Shute looking things on the windows are? All the homes have them.
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A supplemental note. The USN does not have a port /station in Alaska..kind of amazing and not in a good way.
1200 miles from Anchorage
I would say they're protective covers for window HVAC units.
Escape chute? 
There's no Adak in Alabama.
AK
Yes, but you said Adak, AL
If you see those it is not a good sign. They are for high winds. They cover the part of the window that cranks open.
makes sense…I bet the weather there is harsh.
Internet searches lead to weird rabbit holes. The last time (ok, well, the last time for this example!
) I chased something like this, at the time I searched, some place in Russia was -72*F actual, not wind chill!! I bet THAT place is harsh on vehicles… the place where they change the oil while the vehicle is running!Edit: BTW, who realized that Adak is the furthest south city in Alaska?
I like to expand my brain. I started reading about the WW2 battle on Attu, and that US had bases in Adak and Cold Bay already.
They even had a McDonalds on Adak. It closed in 1994.
For some reason makes me think of the Fortitude series
People romanticize AK but there's a reason no one (relatively) lives there. It's harsh, bleak and depressing -- obviously that's just my opinion. If you live there and love it you're in luck because you want what most people don't, which is a truly good position in which to be.
People romanticize AK but there's a reason no one (relatively) lives there. It's harsh, bleak and depressing -- obviously that's just my opinion. If you live there and love it you're in luck because you want what most people don't, which is a truly good position in which to be.
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Looking at the Google Earth map of Adak, Alaska, shows the former Naval Station (NAVSTA Adak) but also something very interesting. There were obviously some nuclear weapons storage facilities on that island which would have been very heavily guarded. These images look similiar to missile silos but are obviously simply storage bunkers. While the media states that NAVSTA Adak was there for monitoring Soviet submarine activity, the tell-tale signs show that much more was taking place than what is spoken of.
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