As many of you know, our boy in the freezing Arctic, Brian McKay, has been experiencing unbelievable cold conditions all winter long. It appears that 3 out of the 4 generators which the town's power are down for the count, because of the cold, and the entire town is operating at 25% of its normal supply of power. This translates into very little electricity and power rationing, so he won't be able to participate in this round until the situation is resolved.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080225.warctic0225/BNStory/National

...sounds like a pretty rugged situation, even for those hardy folks.

Your UWOL friends are with you and your community, Brian.

Even if you can't read this yet....

Hi Brian.
Hope you and your family are doing fine, despite the conditions.
I wonder why you didn't show up and I miss your feedback tread. Never the less, after watching your uwol film "A Sunday Drive", I know you're a tough guy. It really blew me off with speed and action. A real adventure, if you tell me :) Wish you all the best and here by send my warmest thoughts to you and all the people at Rankin Inlet - Nunavut.

Best wishes from Norway and Geir Inge

Hi Brian,

Best wishes for you and your family.
Hope you get the power back there soon.

your uwol friend,
Trond

Hi Brian:

Keep safe and warm! Please keep us informed when you are able, we are concerned for you and your family. All the best.

From the looks of your film, you had a wonderful reprieve to shoot an awesome film, if only for a short stint.

Take care.

Cat

Brian, hope everything goes well in spite of your tough conditions! See you soon fellow!
Best wishes!

Brian, keep the blanket on... hope to se you back on UWOL soon...

Hi Brian, I wish you and yours the best I hope you have good mechanics up there. From reading the article it seems like things are on the upswing good to hear it.

Hi Brian, I hope that you and yours are ok and that things will improve soon. Best wishes,
Grant

Hi Brian,

Hope all is well and your managing to get through on the limited electrical supply. Looking forward to hearing from you soon. Take care....

Hello Brian,

Here's hoping that global warming will come to your town very soon.

Okay, not really. Just hope some localized warmth comes to you and your family/friends very soon.

I've already expressed amazement of you before about living in that climate. I wish you and your family to be safe.

Best regards,

Greg Boston

WOW! thats cold.

Our best wishes to you Brian, and the whole comunity. I hope that lunar eclipse was somethig special.
Heres to hoping the juice is back up to full power soon.

Pete

Very quickly...still under orders to conserve power. A new generator was flown in on a C130 Hercules on Wednesday however it is still not up and running. Most of the homes that were frozen are now okay. If all goes well we should be back to normal by Monday...said with fingers crossed.

Thanks everyone for your kind words, very much appriciated.

Brian

Hang on Brian, we're coming!

Jim

If all goes well we should be back to normal by Monday...said with fingers crossed.
Brian

yea but what's normal ... -5F?

I can ship over a supply of hot water bottles if that helps - I get goosebumps just watching snow footage.

good luck with it all

Brian, just watched your video. My back and butt hurts from all those jumps. Good onboard camera shots. Was that a helmetcam? Hope the big freeze has lifted and you can get out and play a little. Bob

Hi Brian,

I hope everything gets back to normal for you tomorrow with the new generator. Keep warm!

Ruth

Finally I can say that life here in the north has returned to normal....well my normal that is. The new generator is operating as it should the old ones should be repaired soon so we will have a backup should this sort of thing happen again.

Thanks everyone for your kind words and thoughts believe me it did help us make our way through this situation.

Congratulations to the winners of UWOL # 7....i hope to view all the films over the next little while.

I'll be around a little more often now.... LOL

Brian

Hey Brian:

Welcome Back! We missed you. Glad to hear you are O.K. Keep in touch, friend... we were worried!

Cato

Brian,
Great job to get your video done in the time you had, & under the conditions you were having at the time leading up to this round. I loved the helmet cam shots, makes me wonder how the heck they stay on those things! Or was that you on on of them? Great camera work considering the temps you've been experiencing up there. The hands must have been totally frozen by the end of it.

Bryce

Hello Bryce:

To me the most important rule in the challenges is number 11....have fun. I've had the helmet camera for a while, I was using a cheap camera to record the video to tape. But just before number 7 I picked up a small DVR it's built like a brick....machined aluminum case, records to 8gig cards Mpeg2. So far the tests with it have been going very well...I can't wait for the lakes to open....it's completely water proof (so they tell me) said with fingers crossed.

No that was not me on the chase machine....way to many broken bones and birthdays have come and gone for me to climb on the racing machines. Most recent was a little over a year ago.... dislocated shoulder, broken collar bone and broken shoulder blade....I now beep at security when I fly.

Yep we damn near froze all of us.

Brian

Take care Brian. Hope everyone around you are fine and coping well.

Cheers

WeeHan