As 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
Flooding in Hooper Bay on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. A powerful storm that hit a wide swath of Western Alaska forced some Hooper Bay residents to evacuate. HOOPER BAY - Signs of the flood are everywhere. A steel culvert rests on top of a building that was pushed off its frame. Fishing boats sit stranded on the tundra. Seaweed and debris hang shoulder high off fences in the middle of town.the coastal community of about 1,300 people.
Andrew, the older of the two, said things are still in a much better shape than they were just a few days ago.Andrew, born and raised in Hooper Bay, said he had never seen anything like the flooding that rocked the village over the weekend. As an Alaska Village Electrical Cooperative power plant operator, he certainly hadn’t experienced anything like it. He only just started in April. His cousin has been working as a plant operator for only three weeks. Both cousins are in their early 30s.
Soon, some of the empty bulk fuel tanks started to lift and tilt. One toppled, causing 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. “After the flood in the morning, the day tank was getting low.
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