Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Workers at the National Weather Service office in Anchorage, Alaska, put a shutdown-inspired secret message into a forecast: "Please pay us." The workers, whose pay is being withheld during the ongoing shutdown of the federal government, concealed the message as the first letter in each of 11 lines of a forecast discussion for south-central and southeast Alaska Friday, The Washington Post reported Monday. Advertisement The service simultaneously published a version of the discussion without the hidden message. The National Weather Service excepted about 3,935 employees from the shutdown. "There's no money to pay them," Dan Sobien, president of the National Weather Service Employees Organization, said in an interview with Popular Science. "Nobody knows when anyone's going to get paid." Read More Economic adviser: Obama open to budget talks sans debt ceiling Republican congressman suggests way to reopen government White House: Shutdown hampers U.S. ability to enforce Iran sanctions Warren Buffett sees light at end of the debt ceiling battle Hot mic picks up McConnell, Paul strategy session
