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.
“Even if we don’t have a plan for it, there’s ways around it, and that we can tackle it and that’s what we’ve been doing and hope to continue doing,” he said. Roughly half the school building was demolished last year. A crew is racing to take down the rest of the building this fall before it collapses into the river.
He said that Bristol Bay saw severe coastal flooding in August in 2005. Back in 1990, Nome also experienced severe weather and saw significant coastal erosion.
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