“I don’t know how to feel about it, because I’m not the only one,” said Stella Lake in Chevak, where her boat's $20,000 motor was flooded during last weekend's storm — but many locals' boats were destroyed.
Stella Lake and Michael Cholok discuss damage to Lake’s boat after it was flooded and submerged in the Chevak River for three days.
“Tomorrow morning, [we] are going to go to Apun where there’s a significant number of fish camps,” said Scott Ulroan. He and another local man were hired temporarily by the tribal council to survey storm damage to smokehouses, fish racks and wall tent frames. “So that’s what’s making it drip [inside] when it rains right now. We are trying to patch it up,” said David Ulroan.
“A lot of it looks like it’s just mainly electrical,” Cholok said, after removing the motor’s cowling and inspecting a few wires that had corroded. “We just gotta tear it apart, clean it up, put it all back together, make sure everything is lubricated properly.” Mary Stone is an elder in Chevak. She said the village tribal council needs to consider longer-term emergency response plans that include assisting their vulnerable neighbors in Hooper Bay. “Yeah, they let ‘em move,” she said of Hooper Bay’s past leaders. “They got permission from [Hooper Bay] to have Chevak move over here in the high land,” she explained.
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