Last week’s fierce storms aren’t unprecedented, but longtime residents say they aren't all that normal either.
A series of very strong storms caught many people in Western Alaska off guard last week, including in Napakiak, where the banks of the Kuskokwim River are eroding at a startling rate.
In 2020, Nelson, who works for the city, helped devise Napakiak’s 50-year plan. It outlines how the community will retreat from severe erosion along the Kuskokwim River’s edge, which is about a quarter mile from the city office. According to climatologist Rick Thoman, these kinds of storms aren’t unprecedented, but they don’t usually arrive on the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta until later in the fall.
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