“We can’t let bureaucracy stand in the way, because every day is a day for some folks in a wet house,' Dunleavy said. 'Every day is a day in which their house is off its foundation or they can’t get to where their boats are because their roads are gone.”
Based on the State of Alaska’s assessment, the five communities that were hit the hardest from the recent storm were Golovin, Hooper Bay, Newtok, Nome and Scammon Bay. Dunleavy was able to visit all of them over the past few days, and noted that Golovin’s damage stood out to him.
“There’s a pretty flat spit there as well as a hill where homes are located. That spit got hit pretty hard,” Dunleavy said. “We saw a lot of devastation there. A lot of high water, teacher housing, other housing, buildings and connexes that have been blown across the inlet, quite some distance and that are now located on the other side of the inlet.”
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