Alaska Villages Devastated
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In one of the most significant airlifts in Alaska history, hundreds of residents from Alaska Native villages are being flown about 500 miles to Anchorage.
The disaster laid bare the Alaska Native village’s vulnerability to flooding and the consequences of the Trump administration’s cuts to environmental programs.
Indigenous organizations and local leaders were focusing on the destruction from the recent storm before the start of the convention.
State and federal officials have spent years recommending steps to mitigate flood risks in rural Alaska. Most have not been implemented.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong brought record high water to low-lying Alaska Native communities last weekend and washed away homes, some with people inside.
The remnants of Typhoon Halong have killed one person, left two missing, displaced hundreds and destroyed or damaged dozens of homes.
As morning light hit flooded communities devastated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong on Sunday, local residents snapped photos of the storm damage across western Alaska communities.
A Trump administration official said the cancellation of a $20 million grant to Kipnuk saved taxpayer dollars from being “swept into the Kuskokwim River.”
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