Village of Golovin still accounting for all that’s been lost in storm

Zachariah Hughes

WESTERN ALASKA

Anchorage Daily News

GOLOVIN — Nothing looks quite right in the low part of Golovin. Not the homes, not the land or roads, and not the water still pooled up like brackish ponds in people’s yards. When the floodwaters finally receded from last weekend’s powerful storm, it left this village of 150 choked by debris: mud and muck mixed with spilled diesel and sewage, driftwood and stumps, building material stripped off homes by the wind or dashed to pieces by days of pounding waves. And sand.

Sand is now everywhere. Sand shorn from the coastline and redeposited in the worst of places: inside houses, burying outbuildings, choking the engines of idled snowmachines and four-wheelers buried to their

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