Alaska's Storm of the Century!!!

When moving to a new location the last thing you ever think is that you might be a part of the biggest storm to hit that location in over a century. Well, I am glad to say that I actually witnessed one of the biggest storms to hit the coast of Alaska in a century. It actually wasn't too horrible where we are located. Kotlik was right in the middle of two raging storms, one to our north and one to our south. We got some wicked winds and some crazy flooding but everyone in our village was safe. Many had to camp out at the school because their homes flooded or their housing was unsafe during the 80 mph winds. Glen walked through those winds to and ice storms to go to the post office and pick up our new parkas. When he returned his face was wind chapped. Poor guy!

Here's a picture of me in my new parka by my new lake house!

The front door to our house has some great cracks around it and the storm pushed all kinds of snow through the door. We hung a blanket to try to keep the snow to a minimum in our mud room. As you can see quite a bit of snow still managed to make it into our house. We had a few inches of snow in our mud room by the end of the night.

Our school sits above the ground a few feet and the flooding made it to our school and started a little lake and some rivers around the school.

The river was frozen over when the storm hit but the flooding caused the ice to lift up and keep freezing. The boats were all on land before the river originally froze, now they are in the middle of a giant ice river. The river rose about ten feet from its original position. It was quite an experience to see everything changing because of the storm.

I can't wait to see what lies in store for me this winter. Till my next adventure posting...

Jaki :)