Author: Emily Schwing

Emergency supplies fill the lobby of the Chief Paul Memorial School in Kipnuk, Alaska. Nearly 700 people sheltered there for two days after ex-Typhoon Halong. Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media hide caption toggle caption Eric Stone/Alaska Public Media On a Sunday morning last month, James Taq’ac Amik was huddled on a small bridge with his girlfriend. At 4 a.m., they had scrambled into an 18-foot aluminum motor boat, fleeing floodwaters from a massive storm surge that inundated Kipnuk, a village of 700 people in the heart of western Alaska’s sprawling Kuskokwim river delta. “I couldn’t make it up. I tried, but…