A Harbor Without A Road Is Just The Icing On The Cake For This Alaskan town

Alaska. The last frontier. A place filled with grizzly bears and TLC shows. A place where Sarah Palin was elected not once but twice. A place that most Americans probably don’t think of too often. A place rich in oil. A place that almost connects us to Russia. A place where we almost built a bridge to nowhere. A place where they pay you every year to live there. Alaska.

Alaska is also pretty good at spending federal money for the most ridiculous things ever. Sometimes I think that because they are so far away we just turn a blind eye to them-which we do. The small island of Akutan literally built aharbor with no roads to it. Look at the picture and tell me that it is not surreal. The story that goes along with it is even more bizarre.

A little history must be presented before I explain what lead to building this gross misuse of tax dollars. Akutan is 766 miles southwest of Anchorage and has a year-round population of 75. What separates it from most small fishing towns is that it has 1,000 seasonal workers fly in every year to work at the Trident Seafood fish-processing plant. This fish processing plant is the largest in the entire United States. Because of this, the government thought it would be a good idea to build a $75.5 million airport to transport these workers in and out of the city.

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