Occupy Alaska protesters pretty darned cold

A hardier contingent in Fairbanks has been camped for two months in a local park, withstanding temperatures dropping to about minus 40 degrees, record cold for this time of year.

“I think that a sense of patience and endurance is happening here, if we hang in there and we endure, that things are going to change,” said Brent Baccala, a self-described Christian street minister and a software designer…

“I’m starting to think that we’re certainly in it for the winter,” Baccala said. The group survived the worst of the cold, and the weather had improved by Tuesday night, he said. “It’s warmed up. It’s about minus-10,” he said.