Big Storms

A vast storm front battered Alaska with rain and winds in October and November 2002. It covered much of western Siberia and Alaska, including the entire Kenai Peninsula. Roads and bridges were washed out. People were stranded in or away from their homes. Rivers and gullies filled with flood waters, washing away salmon eggs and young. The Peninsula was declared a state and federal disaster area. Questions have been raised about the role extensive logging, paving, and other human alteration of the land may have played in increasing the effects of the storm.

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