Hey Mivox

got any bodies you need to bury?

[lawman]

Spring Thaw In Alaska [newsday.com] :)

lawman, esq.

[sned]

gotta love Fairbanks, I don't think it dropped below freezing last night!

[Fiver]

I always wondered what those little brick houses were in the cemeteries - growing up in Canada - I always thought they were rich people with expensive burial plots... but its just where they store the bodies till the spring thaw.

I'm about 20 minutes north of the U.S. Border, so I'm sure it's a similar scene in northern NY state.

I wonder how far south you need to go before the ground stops freezing.

[volatilegx]

Here they just bury people 1 foot below the surface and lay a concrete or granite slab on top of the grave. Maybe they could try something like that in AK.

[pmac]

--brick houses were in the cemeteries-------

Who would have thought?

Here I was thinking it was the mens room.

[mivox]

Gads... They ran a big story in the local paper about it today. Apparently all the 'hold-overs' get buried this month... pleasant thought. ;)

[olwen]

There's a cemetery an Whakarewrew in Rotorua (NZ) in a thermal area where graves are built on the ground rather than dug in [flippi.co.nz...]

[Skylo]

Now thats messed up

[hannamyluv]

That's what the do in New Orleans. Gound's too swampy to bury people in it. It's much prettier though than the example above.

[tour-new-orleans.com...]

[Fiver]

-Who would have thought?-

not I monsieur, nor any of those fellow canadians I asked for a few years. Common knowledge is an uncommon trait these days.