Skagway has issued an emergency declaration amid a series of landslides that damaged the cruise dock, a security building and shipping containers. A recent report warns of “significant risk” of “catastrophic failure” of the mountainside. (via adndotcom)
Several landslides have closed the cruise ship dock in Skagway for the rest of the summer, causing what’s expected to be at least three dozen vessels to skip the tourism-dependent port by the end of summer.
No one was injured in the slides that sent rock, dirt and vegetation down the mountainside above the dock. The closure means the port has only been able to accommodate three large cruise ships at the same time, said Jaime Bricker, Skagway’s municipal tourism director.
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