“Fortunately, I wasn’t at home at the moment, but I was there about an hour and a half before it happened, so I’m very lucky to be alive,” Jim Mitchem told the Juneau Empire.
Juneau Emergency Programs Manager Tom Mattice assesses landslide damage on Gastineau Avenue on Sept. 27, 2022.
“Fortunately, I wasn’t at home at the moment, but I was there about an hour and a half before it happened, so I’m very lucky to be alive,” Jim Mitchem told the “I was at work, and I was notified by a neighbor who was asking if I was OK and alive and I was like, ‘What?’ I had no idea,” he said.. It brought trees and other debris crashing down hundreds of feet above Gastineau Avenue in Alaska’s capital.
Most of the debris — about 15 truck loads — had been removed by Wednesday evening, and the street has been reopened to traffic. The remaining debris was to have been hauled out Thursday morning.“It looked like something from out of a movie, it didn’t feel like it was from this world,” he said after seeing the damage to his home.“I’m so grateful for the Juneau community,” Mitchem said. “If you’re going to have your home destroyed, Juneau is the best place to do it.
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