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In a normal year, the big topic of conversation would have been the heavy summer rainfall or the December deluge that threatened to cause Ketchikan Lakes Dam to breach. Or it might have been the month-long visit of Phoenix the humpback whale who bubble fed just about every day for four weeks in November at the downtown Ketchikan docks.
But in Ketchikan, in 2020, the biggest news was the same as it was all over the world, the COVID-19 Pandemic and how it changed nearly every facet of our lives over the last nine months of the year.
COVID-19 arrived in March in the First City, and, by the end of the year, more than 250 residents and travelers had tested positive. One local woman, Julie Wasuli of Saxman, died from COVID-19 in December at a hospital in Bellingham, Washington.
Murkowski must work to address climate change Author: Zach Brown Published December 11, 2020
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Print article Last Saturday, Gov. Mike Dunleavy declared a disaster in my home of Southeast Alaska. Record-obliterating rain more than a foot in a few days mixed with melting snow in the 50-degree F warmth and poured down swollen watersheds, tearing out bridges, washing out roads. Ketchikan Lakes Dam teetered on the brink of failure, nearly disgorging a flash flood through the city’s historic downtown. In Haines, the rains set loose landslides that buried homes and people. This extraordinary storm was born of the hottest November ever recorded on planet Earth. Warm air acts like a sponge, soaking up evaporation from the abnormally warm North Pacific below then wringing out on our communities when atmospheric rivers align. Record heat begets record wet.
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