The Entire Town Of Whittier Alaksa Lives Under One Roof

With sub zero temperatures and 60 mph winds plaguing the town the people of whittier decided to stay safe by living under one roof.
The entire town of whittier alaksa lives under one roof. Rather than face the cold the people of whittier built everything they needed inside begich towers. In this alaskan town every resident lives in the same building winter in whittier means one thing. The other main structure in town the buckner building was completed in 1953 and was called the city under one roof. Like any small town whittier alaska has a church medical clinic police station post office restaurant laundromat market and neighborhood bar.
They made sure that they d never need to go outside again. The buckner building was eventually abandoned. An impossibly long single lane tunnel is your only way into whittier and your only way out. About 217 people live there and it s.
So small in fact that almost its entire population has chosen to live under one roof the roof of the begich tower. The army plans an amazing complex in the middle of nowhere. The town s 200 residents primarily reside in a single 14 story building called begich towers a former army barracks. You can get to whittier by sea or take a long one lane tunnel through the mountains which at any given time only runs one way.
A self contained city in begich towers the harbor in whittier a bustling tourist town in the. Make it to the other end of those dimly lit miles and you ll. In whittier the 220 residents pretty much all live together under one roof. Claustrophobics need not apply.
It s still a fairly inaccessible town young says. The 14 story building begich towers which looks like an appropriate. And not just that. Buckner and begich towers were at one time the largest buildings in alaska.
In whittier alaska almost all of the tiny town s 200 residents live in one building and hardly ever have to go outside. The alaskan town living under one roof.