jleeomc Says: Be wary of traveling by Air in the winter months. The airport can and does freeze over, thereby cancelling flights. Once I did see them clearing the runway. They used two trucks with aircraft jet engines strapped on them. The exhaust was loosening and blowing away the runway...
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Be wary of traveling by Air in the winter months. The airport can and does freeze over, thereby cancelling flights. Once I did see them clearing the runway....
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Did not work here in this town, but this was the major transit point to the oil field in Tengiz - a bit further southeast along the Caspian Sea. City was starting to expand with 'western' services......
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