“We just have to impress upon our federal friends that it’s not a Florida situation where we’ve got months to work on this,” he said at a news conference last night. “We’ve got several weeks to work on this.”
has impacted almost 1,000 miles of Alaska’s coastline, and it continues to batter the state.“We’re trying to assess exactly what has occurred,” Dunleavy said at an 8 p.m. news conference. “We’ve got a lot of rain. We’ve got wind. And we’ve got surge — storm surge — is going to be the big concern.”
“The state has been in contact with us and they say the worst is yet to come,” Mayor Lars Sookiayak said in an interview Saturday. “So we don’t know what to expect.” “We just have to impress upon our federal friends that it’s not a Florida situation where we’ve got months to work on this,” he said at the news conference. “We’ve got several weeks to work on this.”
Another reason the assessments need to be done quickly, Dunleavy said, is because the state is tracking. If the typhoon’s remnants again move toward Alaska, the storm could land in about seven to 10 days, he said.
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