ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Damage to remote Alaska villages hammered by flooding last weekend is so extreme that many of the more than 2,000 people displaced won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a request to the White House for a major disaster declaration.
In one of the hardest hit villages, Kipnuk, an initial assessment showed that 121 homes — or 90% of the total — have been destroyed, Dunleavy wrote. In Kwigillingok, where three dozen homes floated away, slightly more than one-third of the residences are uninhabitable.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong struck the area with the ferocity of a Category 2 hurricane, Dunleavy said, sending a surge of high surf into the low-lying region. One person was killed, two remain missing, and rescue crews plucked dozens of people from their homes as they floated away. more
h/t Heaux
The Amish from NC have started a wagon train through Canada but they were turned back b/c the horses didn’t have their covid cards.
I hope Santa and crew have a backup plan!!
Without gov’t help they could return to their homes in 8 months.
That’s what happens when you live at sea level and there’s nothing between you and the Pacific Ocean.
Why are those people living there and who payed for their houses? And who’s paying for their way of life now?
Three guesses and the first two don’t count.
how hard is it to build back an igloo?
We had a hurricane blow through south GA last year. FEMA still has not shown up but I could apply for a $750 FEMA loan on-line. You can’t rely on government, but you can rely on neighbors. It has cost about $35k so far on the cleanup/repair that is not covered by insurance. I still have a couple of trees that need to be removed.
“won’t be able to return to their homes for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy said in a request to the White House for a major disaster declaration”.
More like won’t be allowed to return to their homes and pick up where they left off for at least 18 months, Gov. Mike Dunleavy has friends, family and campaign contributors who are counting on a big payout and that implies a major disaster declaration in order to get federal dollars flowing their way. I guaranfuckingtee it.
Shit, it will take 18 months of fifty to hundred million dollar studies just to figure out what permits they will need.
Holy underwear! Innocent women and children’s homes blown to bits! We have to set up our friends, family and campaign contributors in phoney baloney jobs here, gentlemen! We must do something about this immediately! Immediately! Immediately! Harrumph! Harrumph! Harrumph!
why would anyone live in that freezing shithole?
This is an incident that government should help recovery start at state level, just like they do after hurricanes or tornadoes. But as we know if they are waiting on FEMA or the other swamp creatures nothing will be done.
Winter is fast approaching Alaska so the folks are SOL for anything to start anytime soon. FYI, the residents are majority inuit or inupiat so they will sadly be ignored even though they are citizens. Could say it is revenge for them being the group that pushed the Alaska rank choice vote recall to keeping it, i.e. easily bought off by the government state or federal.
get the fema-*******out of the way first
Don’t Alaskans get a state stipend from oil exploitatio
n Why can’t use that money to rent a hotel room until they can get new homes built. Most Americans don’t have this luxury.
Drop a drone on HAARP and put a stop to this shit.