Keeping the kids off the furniture in Seward, Alaska.

Photo courtesy of Reddit.

Courtesy of Seward City News:

On Sunday afternoon, just before 3pm, an adolescent black bear walked into the Breeze Inn, located near the Boat Harbor in Seward. The bear entered the lobby through the back door, which was propped open while housekeeping and maintenance was being done on the nearby hotel rooms. The bear then walked down the long hallway, past meeting rooms and entered the main lobby of the hotel, where it wandered around, smelling the stuffed bear that is prominently displayed, according to Carly Coats, who works at the Breeze Inn’s front desk.

Verschueren stated that the bear had been “chased [into the hotel] by people trying to take photographs.” When trying to get the bear to exit the hotel, a similar obstacle made it difficult to get the bear to leave the premises. The front parking lot was full of people eager to take the bear’s photo, many of them standing on their cars. The bear is presumed to be the same one that had been wandering around the Seward Harbor earlier in the day, and had also been spotted at the nearby Chevron Station.

So clearly the bear, like any local celebrity, was simply trying to avoid the paparazzi.

Funny thing though is that this bear apparently attracted far more photographers than now show up to take pictures of a certain former half term governor.

I'm just saying.

If there is a God he apparently hates Alaska right now!

Flooding in Seward, Alaska.

Here is more from ADN:

Chuck Van Ornum escaped from his home near Willow Creek with nothing but his 14-year-old dog, named Dammit. 

His area of Friday Road, just off Hatcher Pass Road in the Willow area, was rushing with what looked like whitewater when he left in the dark Wednesday night. The water was so deep that his station wagon briefly floated as he tried to drive down the road. 


"It's the scariest thing I've ever done," he said. "And I've been shot, I've done everything." 

Van Ornum ended up spending the night at a Red Cross shelter set up at the Willow Community Center. About 25 people were expected to take shelter there Thursday night, a staff member said, up from five the night before. 

I'm sorry but when anything knocks down being shot to the second scariest thing that has ever happened to you, you know that new thing must be scary as shit!

Dennis said that his place was all flooded as well and some of the roads were washed out, and even the Old Glenn highway was flooded.

My backyard looks like a Mississippi bayou right now and there is a mushroom growing in the yard so big that I will be able to take cover beneath it the next time the skies open up again.

Well now I guess we know why Sarah Palin is doing her Fox interviews from sunny La Vegas don't we? That's the same thing she did when she was governor, run at the first sign of trouble.

Coward!