Quote:Emergency responders in western Alaska are working to help more than a thousand residents displaced after ferocious, hurricane-force wind gusts from what once was Typhoon Halong tore through remote, coastal communities, unleashed record-breaking storm surge and shoved homes completely off their foundations.

At least one person, an adult woman, was found dead in the village of Kwigillingok, which has a population of less than 400, on Monday, the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management said in a statement.

Search efforts for two missing men from the same village have been called off after search and rescue crews found no sign of them, Alaska State Troopers spokesperson Austin McDaniels said in an update to the media Tuesday afternoon.

“We know this is devastating news for the families and loved ones of the two missing people,” McDaniels said. “If new evidence or credible information emerges about the location of the two individuals, we will immediately reassess that information and deploy appropriate resources to investigate and respond.”

Quote:Five months before catastrophic floods swept through the Alaska Native village of Kipnuk on Sunday, tearing many houses off their foundations, the trump administration canceled a $20 million grant intended to protect the community from such extreme flooding.

The grant from the Environmental Protection Agency was designed to help stabilize the riverbank on which Kipnuk is built, protecting it from the twin threats of erosion and flooding.

But in May, the EPA revoked the grant, which was issued at the end of the Biden administration, saying it was “no longer consistent” with the agency’s priorities. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin boasted on social media that he was eliminating “wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants,” referring to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, and programs to help communities facing a disproportionate level of environmental threats.

It is unclear whether the work funded by the grant would have prevented the tragedy Sunday, which left one person dead and two missing in the neighboring village of Kwigillingok. But the disaster laid bare the area’s vulnerability to flooding and the consequences of the trump administration’s cuts to environmental programs.

Quote:It is unclear whether the work funded by the grant would have prevented the tragedy Sunday

(10-15-2025 11:47 AM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  

(10-15-2025 11:50 AM)shere khan Wrote:  Cnn and seattle times..

Commie tom and the blind links