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Ramsey Al-Rikabi went to a fire then told people about it; Chris Goffard on
a small tape with a huge impact; and Tomas Alex Tizon with a Katrina evacuee a long way from home:
She didn't know diaper wipes could freeze so fast. One moment they were a stack of moist towelettes, next they were an icy white brick.
Patti Tobias had left her infant's wipes in the back seat of the car on a morning when the temperature dipped to 7 degrees below zero. "Huh," she said, inspecting the block and grinning.
Her relatives in New Orleans would get a kick out of this.
She would share it as part of the chronicle of "a little black girl in Alaska," the story of her new life as told to friends and family in daily long-distance phone conversations. Her dispatches included stories of moose and mountains and white people. Patti, 39, had never been around so many white people. Most have been quite nice.