One of the Alaska Air National Guard’s behemoth C-17 Globemaster III landed in Anchorage, Alaska, on Oct. 15, filled with evacuees left homeless by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.
More than 1,500 people were displaced after the remnants, following an unnamed storm, delivered high winds and sea surges to the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, an area of southwest Alaska, nearly 500 miles away from Anchorage.
According to Alaska’s State Emergency Operations Center, as of Oct. 15, at least one person was killed—67-year-old Ella Mae Kashatok—and two people remain missing, Vernon Pavil, 71, and Chester Kashatok, 41.
Two dozen people were rescued by the Coast Guard after rising waters lifted their homes off their foundations and carried them out to sea….