Waves more than three meters high and wind gusts of up to 145 km/h have been recorded in the area so far, according to the US weather service.
A storm of rare strength is bearing down on western Alaska, whipping up huge waves and causing widespread flooding, the United States Weather Service (NWS) announced Saturday.
“The remnants of Hurricane Merbok will batter western Alaska over the weekend, bringing massive waves, hurricane-force wind gusts, coastal erosion and heavy rains,” the NWS said on Twitter. “Flooding will get worse,” he warned, as the impact of the storm is already evident.
“This is the strongest autumn storm we’ve seen in the Bering Sea in 50 years,” University of Alaska climate researcher Rick Toman told AFP.
In the coastal village of Golovin, the school grounds were turned into a lake. Buildings were flooded and at least two homes were swept away by the rushing waters, officials in Fairbanks, Alaska’s second-largest city, said.
Images released on social media capture the scale of the devastation. In a video shown on the American network CNN, a house can be seen being swept away by torrents and wedged under a bridge.
Waves more than three meters high and wind gusts of up to 145 km/h have been recorded in the area so far, according to the US weather service.
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