PLEASE HURRY!!!!!!
Read the excerpt from "50 Below is Quite Cold, Even for Alaska."

A cold snap gripping inner Alaska is bothering even people like Erickson who have lived in the area a long time. She didn't see a customer until 25 minutes after she opened her store, where the furnace was running.

How does the author's use of the word gripping affect the tone of the passage?

The author feels optimistic about the weather.

The author is respectful of the cold's power.

The author feels sympathy toward Erickson.

The author is sarcastic toward Erickson's weakness.

A freezing, low-pressure front moved into Alaska from Siberia, said Christopher Cox, a lead meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. Regions to the center and west of Alaska have been encountering the 40s and 50s beneath for the most recent few days, he said.

Jake Barnes and his two children have moved to Alaska after his significant other kicked the bucket. He conveys bathroom tissue across the mountains. During a crisis conveyance in a tempest his plane accidents in the mountains.

Searching for Alaska recounts the tale of Miles Pudge Halter, a secondary school junior who isolates his life into time previously and time after an extraordinary occasion that the peruser won't find until some other time in the book. Miles intends to go to the Culver Creek life experience school for his lesser year of secondary school.

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