The City and Borough of Juneau and the Governor have issued disaster emergency declarations.
The flooded Mendenhall River filled Valley neighborhoods, around sunrise on on the morning of Tuesday, August 6th 2024
Water from the swollen Mendenhall River rushed into the basement apartment. The force of it pushed Holland back and floated kitchen appliances like the stove and the fridge. The Hollands left some ducks, a cat, a lizard and a beloved pet dog behind. They arrived at the city’s emergency shelter at Floyd Dryden Middle School, soaked with ice cold glacial water, around the time when flood waters were cresting just after 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
“I think many homes experience some level of flooding, some significant I think somewhere in the vicinity of a 100, maybe hundreds,” Barr said on Tuesday morning. “We just don’t really have a good handle on that yet.” The city issued an evacuation notice on Monday evening, but not everyone left their house in time. Last year, her house barely saw any flooding, so Debbie Penrose Fischer stayed put as the Mendenhall River rose on Monday, even as Alaska Electric Light and Power cut power to her neighborhood.By the time she realized that this year’s flood might be different, it was too late.
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