‘How we’re going to live’

Chris Aadland

RURAL ALASKA

Anchorage Daily News

BETHEL — As officials worked Thursday to evacuate hundreds more residents displaced from Yukon-Kuskokwim villages devastated by a catastrophic storm over the weekend, evacuees preparing for an airlift in Bethel faced an uncertain future. Waiting to board a massive C-17 Globemaster III military transport plane bound for Anchorage on Thursday morning, many evacuees from Kipnuk — like Mychalann Panruk — said they were unsure what awaited them hundreds of miles away in the state’s largest city, or when they could return home.

“Scared, worried,” Panruk said about “how we’re going to live, where we’re going to live.”

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