Photo courtesy of Thomas Kameroff in Emmonak
OK, so who is going to pay to fix everything up?
I've got a story in tomorrow's paper on the potential cost of this year's disastrous break-up floods on the Yukon & Kuskokwim rivers.
Click here to read Gov. Sarah Palin's letter to President Obama, asking the feds to declare a "major disaster" in Alaska. That would open the door for families, local governments and state agencies to get cash to rebuild and repair villages hammered by the floods.
Check out the state's cost estimates nine pages into Palin's letter. Those are really rough guesses at how much might be needed for households and villages to recover -- but they show the scope of the damage.
Add them together and you get tens of millions of dolllars.
One other passage in Palin's letter caught my attention. On the third page, as she's making the state's case for why the feds should declare a disaster, it says:
"Western Alaska communities have the highest average heating fuel ($7/gallon) and gasoline prices ($6.75/gallon). Most rely on limited seasonal employment ... Residents were choosing between food and fuel even before the floods and several communities affected by the floods had requested state economic disaster declarations."
What it doesn't say is that the state denied those requests.
Here's her accompanying letter to the Legislature, by the way.
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1 November 2, 2009 - 3:06pm | trbosh33
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