Yukon Flooding: Russian Mission

So it didn't all happen kind of suddenly or it didn't happen slowly slowly and then once the water came up it came out dry fast We are going to see the water into the water in the rain here slowly and when the water was in the forecast. you can see how it is. well do do do do

do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do So, how where is the coast normally, I'm in a shoreline shortly, I'm on these trees here. How many days, there was no plane since last Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. So basically the reason for the flooding is just because we had so many things. You can never get too much. The river with a lot of water.

Okay. I'm not going to be able to watch this. Okay. Okay, here we go. It just goes to show you to never say never. Russian mission is supposed to be one of those villages that never floods. But this year a big snow pack upstream filled the river with lots of water. Okay. Okay. Okay. Here we go. It just goes to show you that you could never say never. Russian mill it.

Okay. Let's try it again. I hate to see this show up on one of the outtakes someday. Here we go. It just goes to show you that you could never say never. Russian mission is supposed to be one of those villages that never floods. But this year a big snow pack upstream put a lot of water in the river. You add ice and you got a recipe for trouble. Okay. Let's try that one more time. Okay. Here we go. It just goes to show you that you could never say never. Russian mission is supposed to be one of those villages that never floods. But this year a big snow pack upstream filled the Yukon with a lot of water. You add ice and you have a recipe for trouble. Okay. It just goes to show you that you could never say never. Russian mission is supposed to be one of those villages that never floods. But this year a big snow pack upstream filled the Yukon with a lot of water.

And then you add the ice and you're in for a big trouble. It too. Cake three. Okay. Okay. Okay. We're on the airport. We're on the airport. We're on the airport. Okay. some just about all the schools have their own power supply they use an

emergency where when the city power shuts down all right go before we lose it oh wait okay okay okay here we go all right this over here is all right okay here we go all right this over here is the power plant and what the villages had to do is use generators at the school to supply electricity okay we'll try it one more time this over here was the power plant and what the village is having to do now is to use generators at the school to supply electricity there's the fire hole right there that's somebody's house

that's right over the city . . . . . .

.. .. .. .. .. .. .. I didn't get your name, I'm sorry, very deeper, very deeper, and so your house wasn't back there. I mean, is there anything that the state division of emergency services can offer? Yeah, I can't really put it in terms of dollars and cents right now and to what types of programs will be available, but the state will help these people to rebuild their homes and to get back in and put their lives back together again. We have programs both for the public assistance for the public property you've

seen damaged here and for the individual homes. Now as far as what you've seen on the Yukon and on the Cusk Aquim this year, how does this is right? Well, I think that in terms of the damage to people in their individual homes, this is by far the most serious I've seen this year. We have had more serious cases in the past, but this seems to be the worst we've had this year. Does this kind of perhaps we'll make the state try to get villages to think about where they put things? Because here's a village that's not supposed to have a problem with a flooding but yet they've got their sewage lagoon right by the river. Over the past I'd say ten years the state has been working with local organizations and an active effort to get things moved up on the higher ground. As you can see, I know you've noticed in most of the village you've been in, you can see the schools, the newer things are generally above the flood level and that's an ongoing effort that will just take a lot of time. As far as the damage here, is it permanent damage? Are all these homes a total loss?

It's hard to say with that, I don't think they're all a total loss, but these that have five or six feet of water in them, the water's been standing for an hour and standing water for a week. So I think there is a pretty extensive damage at least. What made this spot, what combined to make this spot so badly hit? Well, just the volume of water coming down the river together with the ice jam down river that seemed to be persistent and we've got a real, it seems to be a temperature change too. Upper river has been warm and down river, it's still winter time. So we've got a lot of water coming down and it's meeting up with solid ice that's just stopping the whole process. Okay, what about other villages? Now that the jam has moved, does this threat now move on to other villages? There's a continuing threat down river in virtually all of the villages for flooding. We can certainly hope it's not as bad as this, but there's certainly cause to be aware and to be ready. What's the lesson to be learned out of the Russian mission experience of terrorism? I don't know, it's just the better prepared you are, the better off you are to talking

to people here most of these houses are pretty well empty. So they seem to have had their act together and gotten new things and their property protected to the extent that they could. Anything I didn't think to ask you wanted to say? No, I think you've hit it all around the way. Did they just completely shut it down? Is that what they did? Yeah, it's private property, I was going to ask a village, would you tell it? Well, I'm going to walk up to the school. Okay. Is there a place that I could make a couple of phone calls? Okay, I'm going to, Mike, can I leave and then, um, yeah, go ahead, okay, I'm going to, Mike, can I leave and then, um, okay, hey, hey.

Hey, Larry! Hmm? What do you want to push? What's going on? What's your name? What's your name? What's this for a look? Huh?

Well, there's switches. For a hot? Well, for different things. We'll do different things for the camera. This is the storage of these three four things. For a flat, pleasant thing. I'm going to see how many people are there. Hey, Larry! Nice. Good morning, Larry! Where are you? Hi, Larry. Hi, Larry! Hi, Larry! Hi, Larry!

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