storm batters, floods western Alaska

[donsu]

http://www.ktuu.com/cms/templates/master.asp?articleid=47&zoneid=1


A major storm sweeping through the Bering Sea is causing widespread flooding in coastal villages throughout western Alaska. Some of the hardest-hit areas are communities in Norton Sound, including Nome. But the affected areas stretch for hundreds of miles.

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“Front Street has blowing sea spume and debris scattered across the street. Those portions of Front Street that doesn't have buildings on the south side has baseball-size rocks creeping across. They've been picked up from the sea bed and flung up,” Charlie Lean, Nome’s incident commander, said by phone.

The storm, a massive low pressure system in the Bering Sea, is moving north and bringing the storm surge with it. Nome has set up a shelter at its Recreation Center and the halfway house on Front Street has been evacuated with the residents now staying at the jail.

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“We've got some roads, bridges and seawall damage in Tununak and right now we do have moderate flooding in most of that Norton Sound northern and eastern area. So we won't know the impact of those damages until these tidal surges go down,” said Bob Stewart, state emergency response.
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beached fishing boats in the Gulf and now beached fishing boats in Alaska.

does oil go out of Nome, etc.?

[eleny]

1. What? No presidential photo op?

[pitohui]

2. this is getting out of hand

enough of the damn storms

we must find a way to control weather & climate, this will have to be the new manhattan project, esp if the scientists are correct & we're past the point of no return as far as the greenhouse effect/global warming/methane release in siberia

we can't just sit on our hands & drown