Minor flood stage will begin Monday morning, with flood water expected to crest sometime early Tuesday.
The storm could have threatened the town’s winter subsistence stock if not for the work of local power plant operators.
Nome's landscape is physically altered, with raw material scattered wildly, the coastline reconfigured, and camps that anchored generations of subsistence either flattened or gone.
The record was driven in part by a heavy rainstorm that set Kotzebue's single-day precipitation record.
High winds, flooding and landslides caused moderate to severe damage in communities across Southeast Alaska Wednesday, as an atmospheric river stalled over the region and brought record-breaking rain.
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