Landslide risk increased as Petersburg got seven inches of rain in a single weekend.
Maybe that’s best left to the philosophers. But if hundreds of trees tumble off a mountainside and into the ocean — who would find out about it first?
The Tongass National Forest spans 16.7 million acres — the largest National Forest in the United States. It’s a lot to keep track of. “Mostly just timber, everywhere,” said Riemer. “This slide was pretty dramatic because it didn’t just land in one spot. It just brought a whole bunch of trees down and it just ripped all the branches off of them and pulled the bark off of them and everything like that — littered trees all over.”That debris can be a dangerous problem. Floating wood can damage or even sink small vessels and marine infrastructure. Glorianne Wollen is Petersburg’s harbormaster.
“There was an atmospheric river that was pushing through the central-southcentral Panhandle during that time frame,” said Bezenek. “It just turned out that it was a very rainy end of the week, across the area. Petersburg reported 4.47 inches on the 21st — which, looking at the records, would be the rainiest day on record for that day. Over those two days, we’ve received 7.02 inches.”
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