Last November, a landslide struck Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, killing six people, including a family of five. The community is still grappling with the aftermath.
Jamie Roberts and her husband felt lucky when they found an A-frame cabin on forest-draped Wrangell Island in southeast Alaska, where they could settle on a few acres and have some chickens. A stretch of highway a few miles north, the only road into town, did make her nervous; there, waterfalls cascaded and rocks tumbled from towering bluffs on stormy days. But she always felt safe at her home of more than 20 years. That all changed the night of Nov.
The landslide lacked the scale of one that erased a neighborhood in Oso, Washington, 10 years ago this Friday. But it, too, left a community unmoored, wondering whether the dramatic landscape above was as permanent as it once seemed. Roberts and her family have moved from their home and only returned for brief visits. 'I don’t know that we’d ever sleep very well going back there,' she said. In some ways, life in Wrangell, a former logging town, is returning to normal.
For a long time, the sound of planes overhead upset Roberts: She thought the noise of the landslide was a jet that was about to crash. Until recently, she would close her eyes or bow her head to avoid seeing the scar on brief visits home to gather personal items. The family moved four times in the days after the landslide. They need to be out of their current rental by April 1 but haven’t been able to find another house on the island they can afford.
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