Rescue teams from the Alaska Air and Army national guard units and Coast Guard have sent a wave of aircraft and personnel to the site of massive flooding in remote villages far from roads or major cities. Entire homes were seen floating away as floods hit remotes villages along Alaska’s western coast.

The Alaska Air National Guard, Alaska Army National Guard and U.S. Coast Guard all sent helicopters and C-130 cargo planes towards Kipnuk and Kwigillingok to locate and rescue missing or displaced people. Both are isolated coastal fishing villages accessible only by boat or air, about 400 miles from Anchorage and 70 miles from Bethel, the closest large town with a developed runway, though flooding had covered at least one end of it over the weekend.

At least eight homes in the towns have be

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