Update: 24 people from 2 floating homes in Kwigillingok were airlifted and rescued Sunday, according to a spokesperson with Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, and transported to the airport.
No reported injuries or confirmed deaths in Kipnuk or Kwig.
A couple of updates from KSKO in McGrath. A tree has taken KSKO off the air. KSKO is based in McGrath, but also has repeaters in the following communities:
Grayling (KGYA) Shageluk (KNKO) Holy Cross (KLOP) Anvik (KMGS) Nikolai (KNIB) Sleetmute (KSKP) Crooked Creek (KSKC)
All I have to say is…if I was leader of the House or Senate, starting 48 hours before any shutdown, no one would be going home until a spending bill was passed and signed into law. Also, all of them should be fined $5,000 a day during the duration of a shutdown.
Though technically you could argue 4 of them are due to vacancies…Utqiagvik I don’t count because, while the WSO is vacant, WSO employees don’t do anything upper air related there anymore.
At 10:50 AM AKDT, Klawock [Prince Of Wales-Hyd Co, AK] Local Official reports Lightning. A Lightning strike disabled the automated system at the City of Klawock's Water Treatment Plant. The City currently has crews working manually to adjust... #akwx Link
Hiked up to Chester Lake this afternoon to check on the weather station and swap out the pipe-to-pipe clamps holding it in place for some heavier duty clamps before tomorrow’s big storm. The station has been up for 15 days and the record high wind gust for it is already 95 mph.
AJK issues High Wind Watch valid at Sep 26, 6:00 AM AKDT for Annette Island, City and Borough of Wrangell, Ketchikan Gateway Borough, Petersburg Borough, Prince of Wales Island, Western Kupreanof and Kuiu Island [AK] till Sep 26, 11:00 PM AKDT Link
AJK upgrades High Wind Watch to High Wind Warning valid at Sep 22, 7:00 AM AKDT for City and Borough of Sitka, Western Kupreanof and Kuiu Island [AK] till Sep 22, 12:00 PM AKDT Link
And that was with 3 weeks of no rain last month/earlier this month 🤪 The CRN at the Annette Island Airport is up to 84.10”, which is about 17” above normal, for through the end of September. We don’t usually break 100” until December.
Given that he tends to use his account to conduct official business, I wonder if someone could make an argument to a court to FOIA his DMs since he took office?
