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‘Angry sea’: Huge storm floods roads, homes in Alaska as governor declares disaster

Christine Fernando and Claire Thornton

https://www.yahoo.com/news/strongest-storm-over-decade-threatens-160216201.html

Sat, September 17, 2022 at 1:44 PM·3 min read

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has declared a state of disaster Saturday as a powerful storm threatens huge swaths of the state’s western coastline.

Towns are facing strong winds and flooding, and bracing for possible power outages caused bya stormforecasters are calling one of the worst in the state’s recent history.

The storm systems continued to “produce a potentially historic and long-duration storm surge, and damaging high winds across southwestern and western Alaska,” the National Weather Service said Saturday.

The remnants of Typhoon Merbok are expected to bring moderate to heavy rainfall to the region until Sunday morning. On Saturday morning, a “very angry sea” brought storm surge into the community of Port of Nome, the Weather Service station…