Efforts are underway to clear a road where dozens of fully grown evergreen trees as well as rocks and dirt toppled into an Alaska bay, covering the roadway and cutting off road access for scores of people.
People run from a landslide just outside the downtown area of Seward, Alaska, May 7, 2022. There were no reported injuries in the landslide, which the city estimates could take up to two weeks to clear. – Efforts were underway Monday to clear a road where dozens of fully grown evergreen trees as well as rocks and dirt toppled into an Alaska bay, sending onlookers running and cutting off road access for scores of people.
“You can hear the whooshing of the rocks and earth and then as soon as the trees started falling, then we all knew it was getting serious,” said Josh Gray, who was among those waiting for the all-clear, along with his wife Nikki Holmes. It has prevented about 200 residents and tourists in the Lowell Point area from reaching Seward. Lowell point is a tiny community directly south of the slide on the west side of Resurrection Bay, a 17-mile long body of water that leads to the Gulf of Alaska.
Gray and his wife had driven about 125 miles south from Anchorage for a birthday party on the other side of the slide. They had just gone to a grocery store for ingredients for the batter to deep fry the fresh halibut their friends had caught earlier in the day. Their friends had made it through the rock fall area 15 minutes earlier.
“You know, our plans were minorly inconvenienced for the evening, but there’s a lot of residents that live out there and businesses that operate out there that are going to be impacted for a long time, so that’s pretty unfortunate,” he said.
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