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Iris Samuels

RURAL ALASKA

Anchorage Daily News

For decades, state and federal officials have been warning about the kind of catastrophic damage wrought by the storm that hit Western Alaska over the weekend.

But those predictions, along with hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for mitigation efforts, were not enough to prevent dozens of homes from floating away when struck with the remnants of Typhoon Halong, leaving one person dead and hundreds in emergency shelters.

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