They had driven about 125 miles (201 kilometers) south from Anchorage for a birthday party on the other side of the slide. A police officer and a city loader were on scene to move rocks, some of which were the size of basketballs before one with a diameter of about 4 feet (1.22 meters) landed near the loader, said Josh Gray, who was with his wife, Nikki Holmes, watching sea lions float in the bay waiting for the all-clear. “They’re helping, so a lot of great community coming-together to get things done.”īefore the Seward landslide, traffic was stopped nearby because of falling rocks in the area. “There are a lot of cool things going on,” Bower said of efforts to make sure those stranded are able to get back and forth to Seward, including a water taxi and landing crafts. There is a tiny community south of the slide, called Lowell Point, on the west side of Resurrection Bay, a 17-mile (27-kilometer) long body of water that leads to the Gulf of Alaska. The slide has prevented about 200 residents and tourists from reaching Seward. The slide measured 200 feet (61 meters) long by 300 feet (91 meters) wide and could take up to two weeks to clear, she estimated. Part of the work has created additional slides within the original slide, slowing the process. There were no injuries in the Saturday evening landslide about a half-mile (0.8 kilometer) south of downtown Seward, City Manager Janette Bower said.Ī private contractor was handling the removal process and planned to use heavy equipment to clear the debris at the top first, working down to the roadway, Bower said. Alaska landslide cuts off road access to residents, touristsĪNCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Efforts were underway Monday to clear a road where dozens of fully grown evergreen trees as well as rocks and dirt toppled into an Alaska bay, covering the roadway and cutting off road access for scores of people.
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