"More rain and wind were forecast Wednesday along the Alaska coast where two tiny villages were decimated by the remnants of Typhoon Halong and officials were scrambling to find shelter for more than 1,500 people driven from their homes. The weekend storm brought high winds and surf that battered the low-lying Alaska Native communities along the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in the south-western part of the state, nearly 500 miles (800km) from Anchorage. At least one person was killed and two were missing."
"The hardest-hit communities included Kipnuk, population 715, and Kwigillingok, population 380. They are off the state's main road system and reachable this time of year only by water or by air. It's catastrophic in Kipnuk. Let's not paint any other picture, Mark Roberts, incident commander with the state emergency management division, said during a news conference Tuesday. We are doing everything we can to continue to support that community, but it is as bad as you can think."
Remnants of Typhoon Halong produced high winds and surf that decimated two small Alaska Native villages on the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, displacing over 1,500 residents. At least one person died and two people were reported missing. The Coast Guard rescued about two dozen residents after homes floated out to sea. Hundreds sheltered in schools, one without working toilets, while dozens were flown to a National Guard armory in Bethel. Officials considered moving evacuees to longer-term emergency housing in Fairbanks or Anchorage. Isolated communities such as Kipnuk and Kwigillingok are reachable only by air or water, complicating relief efforts.
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