State officials have so far tallied 89 residential buildings severely impacted by a storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend, but Gov. Mike Dunleavy said a full estimate of the damages will not be available for days.
Family camps and subsistence cabins lay in ruins, shifted off their pads, floated away, and buried in sand along the Nome-Council Road in the days after a significant storm hit stretches of western Alaska, in Nome, Alaska September 19, 2022. severely impacted by a storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend, but a full estimate of the damages will not be available for days, according to Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who traveled to the region earlier in the week.
“We anticipate we’ll find things that nobody has yet seen that need to be worked on, so those estimates will probably be stretching out into the future,” Dunleavy said. Among the most severe damages identified so far by state officials are destroyed sections of road between Nome and Council, and roads in Elim, Golovin and Nome.
The state’s disaster programs are focused on “getting things like plywood, insulation, tin for roofs out to the communities now,” even as the state awaits for a response from the federal government on a disaster declaration request, according to Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Director Bryan Fisher.
Dunleavy also said he spoke with the director of U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Thursday by phone.
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