A landslide triggered by record rainfall significantly damaged three homes, prompted the evacuation of about a dozen residents and caused power outages in downtown Juneau, Alaska’s capital city
Crews delayed cleaning debris on Gastineau Avenue Tuesday while geological teams assessed when people could safely work in the area, city spokesperson Meredith Thatcher said.Damage from the Monday evening landslide was confined to the one residential street above the downtown business district in the southeast Alaska mountain community of about 32,000 residents. There were no reported injuries, city officials said.
Residents in Juneau, located in the Tongass National Forest, the nation’s largest, are accustomed to a persistent light rain falling, but not deluges like they experienced Monday. Other daily rainfall records were recorded at the Juneau weather forecast office, with 2.59 inches beating the previous record of 1.12 inches in 2009, and 2.22 inches at the airport, surpassing the record of 2.02 inches set in 1936.In Skagway, about 100 miles north of Juneau, there’s a flood warning in effect for the Taiya River. The river was at 16.85 feet early Tuesday, just above flooding stage but was expected to drop throughout the day.
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