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134 neau, Anchorage,” he said. “We called in a lot.” Stevens said “demobilization” marks the date on which the city is saying it can handle the repair and cleanup work on its own. There is still a mountain of debris to be hauled away, and utility repair work to be completed on Kramer Avenue, as well as at the sites of the other slides in the road system. But that is scheduled to be completed over the next few weeks, city staff said Friday. “It marks a milestone,” Stevens said of the demobilization. “It means we as a city can handle the rest ourselves, including the oil spill.” He said the official start of the citywide emergency was Aug. 17, with the discovery that thousands of gallons oil had been accidentally released from a city power plant into Sitka Sound. The unrelated mudslides, one of which killed three men, occurred the following day.
135 Afterword By Samantha Cox The day began like any other typical southeast Alaskan deluge-stricken morning. As torrential rains wetted our ground, it was still half-exciting to see the power of our weather at work. That morning as I drove my children to school I noticed that my road was washing out and was pleased to see how hard our City workers were working on resolving the issue. The website I moderated, Sitka Chatters, was quiet that day, with exception to the typical business advertisements, complaints about other drivers, and curiosity over sirens that were heard. It didn’t take long for the horror to settle in to the bones of locals. Three of our own were missing in a catastrophic landslide. And we weren’t talking about a little mud trickling down a hillside. This was the kind of landslide that roars like a freight train and brings with it a seemingly unending amount of rip-roaring old-growth trees and hundreds upon thousands of pounds of suffocating mud.
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Dedicated to the families of Elmer
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and evacuations of buildings and ne
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9 Chris Harshey, a carpenter who wa
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13 Samantha Cox August 18 at 4:42pm
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15 “*** Granite Creek Road. I hav
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19 Shanthee Acker August 18 at 7:09
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21 Keith Perkins August 18 at 11:37
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23 is always hope. And tonight, whe
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25 Lily Herwald August 19 at 1:53pm
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27 Melissa McCrehin August 19 at 6:
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29 Vienna L Vaden August 19 at 10:1
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slimmest of hopes..........and yet
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33 Stortz was working in his capaci
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35 Miller said water coming down th
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Fate said the public can help the d
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of Uli and Elmer, ready to work in
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41 Turnie Wright August 20 at 7:43a
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43 Nuliatchaiq Dawn August 20 at 12
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45 Jennifer Jarvis Barnette August
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47 Naomi Bargmann August 21 at 12:4
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49 Koali Pontual Thorne August 21 a
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51 Shanna Vetter Tadic August 20 at
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53 Kimberly Smith August 20 at 8:50
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55 Fred Moe August 20 at 10:12am We
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*Grace Harbor (747-5706) and the Fi
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59 then swallowed some houses, some
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61 Holly Renner August 21 at 3:22pm
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63 a mountainside above a new subdi
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65 coming weather was cause for con
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67 primary goal was to open it up s
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69 Debi Terry August 22 at 9:25am I
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71 Evadne Allott-Wright August 22 a
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73 donations are being accepted by
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75 “The outpouring has been incre
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77 Maite LRial August 22 at 10:58am
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79 Hailey Barger August 23 at 12:49
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81 Carla Whiteside at Sugar Chic Au
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