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Old 01-25-2014, 12:31 AM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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I didn't take these, but here are some pictures of the avalanche that has closed the Richardson Highway until further notice. I think it's a given that there will be even more significant damage to the highway and potentially to one of the downstream neighborhoods once the dam releases. Nobody was caught in the slide apparently, though one of my guy's friends just barely missed getting hit on the way home from work at the Thompson Pass DOT station.









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Old 01-25-2014, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Valdez, Alaska
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A couple more:





Compare that last one to this:



The gully right there in the middle is the one that slid, and at its height the water filled the part of the valley you can see here at least 30 feet deep above the road. Apparently most of the water has managed to escape overnight (partly through the old highway tunnel that happens to run through the cliff just across from the gully), and the flash flood watch has been cancelled. There's still too much water to start clearing the road, so it'll be closed at least until tomorrow (and I suspect for a couple days or more after that), but hopefully the damage to the road isn't too bad. They just finally fixed the darn thing from the 2006 flood!
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Old 01-25-2014, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Dam! (lol)
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Old 01-25-2014, 06:38 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Awesome sky today...









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Old 01-25-2014, 08:29 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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Old 01-26-2014, 12:30 AM
 
Location: Anchorage Suburbanites and part time Willowbillies
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And from this morning...





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Old 01-26-2014, 06:58 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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The Kilbuck Mountains are bare!







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Old 01-26-2014, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Bethel, Alaska
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tonight

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Old 01-27-2014, 08:25 AM
 
Location: Lyon, France, Whidbey Island WA
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Amazing pictures. Those slides are quite something. Will you get supplies in by air (maybe you mostly do already). Won't be driving there anytime soon that is for sure.
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Old 01-27-2014, 08:48 AM
 
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I didn't think you could drive to Bethel?

I guess you meant by ship as an alternate way to get supplies?
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