In Hooper Bay, during the storm, keeping the power on came down to three men carrying bucket after bucket of fuel through waist-deep, debris-filled water.
Signs of the flood are everywhere. Seaweed and debris hang shoulder high off fences in the middle of town. A steel culvert rests on top of a building got pushed off its frame. Fishing boats lie stranded on the tundra.
On Sept. 20, at the airstrip, cousins Leemon Andrew and Leemon Bunyan were working to restore power to the airstrip’s lights. Soon, some of the empty bulk fuel tanks started to lift and tilt. One toppled over completely. The falling tank caused the gaskets of the fuel lines to rupture. Those lines bring fuel from the bulk tanks to a smaller tank that powers the generator, which in turn powers the whole town. Now that power was close to shutting off completely.“We had a bucket brigade going to fill up the day tank so the generator wouldn’t run out of fuel,” Andrew said.
If the generator shut down, the whole town would lose power. Everyone’s freezers are filled with moose meat and fish for the winter. Without power, Leemon Andrew said the freezers risked thawing and spoiling all the food inside. It was more than electricity — it was a matter of food security.
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As the storm raged, a mad rush to keep the power on in Hooper BayWithout a functioning fuel line, two cousins and an AVEC contractor became a human fuel line instead. As the water rose up toward their waists, debris floating around them, they started carrying bucket after bucket of fuel to the day tank.
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In the midst of the storm, a dash to keep the power on in Hooper BayAs seawater rose toward their waists and debris floated around them, two Hooper Bay power plant operators and a contractor carried bucket after bucket of fuel to the tank feeding the town’s generator. Via KYUKNews
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