Some residents report that the flooding is worse than Typhoon Merbok, and that it rivals this year’s historic breakup floods on the Kuskokwim.
Severe flooding is seen in the coastal community of Kwigillingok on the morning of Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024.
A drone image shows floodwaters threatening the William Miller Memorial School in Napakiak on Sunday, Aug, 18, 2024. According to Christian Landry, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage, strong onshore winds have been holding an already swollen Kuskokwim River in place. A coastal flood advisory for the Kuskokwim Delta was lifted on the evening of Aug. 18. Images posted on social media just hours before showed widespread inundation in Kipnuk and Kwigillingok, where one resident said that the flooding was the worst in more than three decades.to hit Southwest Alaska in the past week. The first weather system off the Bering Sea began blasting the region on Aug. 15, tapering off before the weekend.
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