Cleanup underway after trees topple into Alaska road, bay

People run from a landslide just outside the downtown area of Seward, Alaska, May 7, 2022. There were no reported injuries in the landslide, which the city estimates could take up to two weeks to clear. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — — Efforts were underway Monday to clear a road where dozens of fully grown evergreen trees as well as rocks and dirt toppled into an Alaska bay, sending onlookers running and cutting off road access for scores of people.

“You can hear the whooshing of the rocks and earth and then as soon as the trees started falling, then we all knew it was getting serious,” said Josh Gray, who was among those waiting for the all-clear, along with his Nikki Holmes. It has prevented about 200 residents and tourists in the Lowell Point area from reaching Seward. Lowell point is a tiny community directly south of the slide on the west side of Resurrection Bay, a 17-mile long body of water that leads to the Gulf of Alaska.

Before the landslide, a police officer and a city loader were on scene to move rocks, some of which were the size of basketballs, before one with a diameter of about 4 feet landed near the loader, Gray said. Seward has not had heavy rain recently or other normal conditions that would trigger a landslide, prompting the state geologist to visit the site and assess conditions, Bower said. Torrential downpours in December 2020 triggered landslides in Haines that killed two people.

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