Although debris can be cleared and homes rebuilt, for many, a sense of security has been shattered.
Weather
Biden approves federal disaster declaration for Western Alaska storm
That makes federal funding available to Alaskans impacted by the storm.
Atmospheric river could bring flooding to the northern Alaska panhandle
The biggest flooding concerns will be Monday night into Tuesday as rain continues.
Chevak stunned by food losses after Western Alaska storm: ‘We’re gonna have to start over’
Ryan Bukowski is responsible for feeding at least nine family members. Now he’s not sure if any of the food they hunted, caught and gathered is safe to eat.
As the storm raged, a mad rush to keep the power on in Hooper Bay
The storm could have threatened the town’s winter subsistence stock if not for the work of local power plant operators.
‘Some of them just disappeared’: Essential pieces of life in Nome were lost in the storm
Nome’s landscape is physically altered, with raw material scattered wildly, the coastline reconfigured, and camps that anchored generations of subsistence either flattened or gone.