This is why I think this will be a winter for the history books and the West coast may be in for a deep freeze.





A powerful, historic storm continued to batter a huge swath of the Western Alaska coast Saturday, causing severe flooding, evacuations, power outages and wind damage to communities throughout the region.

No fatalities, injuries or missing persons had been reported by Saturday night, but many communities were underwater and without power as the storm approached its peak.

As the massive storm, the remnants of a Pacific typhoon, barreled north across the Bering Sea, it pounded villages from the Kuskokwim River delta to the Bering Strait. By late afternoon, it was moving into the Chukchi Sea.

By all accounts, the storm has so far been among the worst the region had experienced in many years, according to residents, meteorologists and disaster officials, who say it will take days and weeks to understand the full extent of the damage.

By Saturday evening, significant damage and flooding had been reported in dozens of communities in Western Alaska, including Golovin, Hooper Bay, Nome, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet, Newtok and Kotlik.

The state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management had received multiple reports of essential infrastructure damage, water within communities, outages, serious flooding and limited communication as the storm continued to move through the region, according to spokesman Jeremy Zidek.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration Saturday, describing the storm as "unprecedented."

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Quote from: Solar on September 18, 2022, 06:22:03 AMThis is why I think this will be a winter for the history books and the West coast may be in for a deep freeze.





A powerful, historic storm continued to batter a huge swath of the Western Alaska coast Saturday, causing severe flooding, evacuations, power outages and wind damage to communities throughout the region.

No fatalities, injuries or missing persons had been reported by Saturday night, but many communities were underwater and without power as the storm approached its peak.

As the massive storm, the remnants of a Pacific typhoon, barreled north across the Bering Sea, it pounded villages from the Kuskokwim River delta to the Bering Strait. By late afternoon, it was moving into the Chukchi Sea.

By all accounts, the storm has so far been among the worst the region had experienced in many years, according to residents, meteorologists and disaster officials, who say it will take days and weeks to understand the full extent of the damage.

By Saturday evening, significant damage and flooding had been reported in dozens of communities in Western Alaska, including Golovin, Hooper Bay, Nome, Shaktoolik, Unalakleet, Newtok and Kotlik.

The state Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management had received multiple reports of essential infrastructure damage, water within communities, outages, serious flooding and limited communication as the storm continued to move through the region, according to spokesman Jeremy Zidek.

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy issued a disaster declaration Saturday, describing the storm as "unprecedented."

More...

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/rural-alaska/2022/09/17/worst-storm-in-years-batters-western-alaska-coast/

Nature is powerful and controls man more than man will ever control it. And out there are people who believe if I just stop driving my Ram 2500 and switch to a battery run with maybe a windup motor spare, none of this would happen. Just think, no floods, no droughts, never too hot, never too cold.

Yep, and I love it when natures flips these idiots off!