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Two weeks into the government shutdown, National Parks are starting to close. The public has been getting free access, since there are no employees to collect entrance fees of up to $35 per car. But neither are employees there to collect trash and clean bathrooms. So, with overflowing trash cans and toilets posing a threat to human health and safety, parks are shutting down.
But in the nation's oldest national park, Yellowstone, local businesses are pitching in to pay park staff to keep it open — or at least parts of it.
[...] Jerry Johnson owns a business that rents snowmobiles and sends seven guided tours a day into Yellowstone in the winter. He calls it 'the trip of a lifetime.' When the shutdown began, he received a big spike in phone calls from people who had already booked trips, and he didn't want to tell them their Yellowstone adventure was cancelled because politicians in Washington D.C. couldn't resolve their differences.
[...] "If you don't groom," explained Johnson, "the trails will get very rough, and you get bumps, moguls, in them, and it'll be — it's just miserable."
So, during the shutdown, private businesses that operate inside the park are picking up the tab — about $7,500 dollars a day to groom Yellowstone's 300-plus miles of snow-covered roads, and to keep one paved road open to cars. Xanterra Parks and Resorts, which runs the only hotels operating inside the park in winter, is paying most of that — paying park service employees to perform the same grooming duties they do under normal circumstances.Xanterra asked the 13 guide services that operate in the park to chip in to help pay, and all of them did. It adds up to about 300 bucks a day for each of the guide services.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @09:57PM (6 children)
Don't you deny there is snow every time there is an article about it though?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @10:00PM (4 children)
Yep, the same account denied there was cold/snow in this post (from Nov 29th) too:
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=28832&page=1&cid=768263#commentwrap [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @01:43AM (2 children)
He was right though. Until the past week or so, it's been well above freezing here in MI. Now it's below freezing, but still no snow on the ground in my area.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @03:24AM (1 child)
I'm in a state just south of you and have snow on the ground.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 15 2019, @12:19PM
Yeah, that snow you had over the weekend didn't quite reach us.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:37PM
That is because I had just driven across Pennsylvania, and there was no snow.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday January 15 2019, @02:45PM
I deny it when I've been in the place at the time they're talking about, and the conditions are not what the media are reporting. I deny it when family members who live in the area send me photos of 50F weather (that is, the ground is bare and they're wearing t-shirts and windbreakers), on the very day the media publishes a heartbreaking story about how the government shutdown means there's no one to groom the snow(!!!).
Given the tone of your posts, a person would think you'd be happy for more confirmation of global warming/climate change. It is weird for Yellowstone and the West to be that warm in January. It never is. In that part of the country, record low winter temperatures for the lower 48 states are regularly set. Me, I am convinced by the scientific evidence and the evidence of my eyes that anthropogenic climate change is real and we need to do something about it urgently.
But you guys are so twisted up in your hatred in upside-down world that you can only hate, hate, hate and attack, attack, attack, because reasons.
Washington DC delenda est.