The Alaska National Guard mobilized 165 personnel to assist 30 different Western Alaska villages recently.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The wicked winds, harsh rainfall and intense flooding of Typhoon Merbok caused houses to be ripped off their foundations in dozens of Western Alaska villages. Many streets now face erosion problems, leaving the villages that span over 1,300 miles of coastline of Alaska in need of repairs — and people to complete them.
During the course of the 10-day operation, the National Guard was able to remove 200,000 pounds of debris from the recent storms. They also placed 15,000 pounds of rock and sandbags to help reinforce vital infrastructure, bolstering the community physically and emotionally. “Initially when I first got there, it was really hard to see,” Konelaq Shoogukwruk said. “As a boy in Golovin — I grew up 15 miles away from Golovin, just up the river — and when I first got there, the lower part of town is where my friends and I used to play all the time, and to see all that debris and destruction and people houses moved, and people’s food and their freezer’s and stuff, it was really hard.
Schoogukwruk thinks that seeing help come from those in their own communities bolstered many of the locals begin the healing process following this natural disaster.
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