“I don’t see Kipnuk anymore,” he said. “It’s not home.”

Before and after satellite imagery is revealing the scope of the damage left behind after this week's catastrophic flooding and wind damage from a powerful coastal storm fueled by the remnants of Typhoon Halong.

Typhoon Halong was an unusual storm, likely fueled by the Pacific’s near-record warm surface temperatures this fall. Its timing means recovery will be even more difficult than usual for these hard-hit communities,

Residents of Kipnuk and Kwigillingok began evacuating en masse on Wednesday, flying in military aircraft from their western Alaska communities which were devastated by ex-Typhoon Halong. On Wednesday evening,

On Wednesday and Thursday, hundreds of people from Kipnuk and Kwigillingok boarded military transport planes headed for Anchorage, leaving their homes, belongings and communities behind.

As officials in Alaska work around the clock on one of the most significant airlift operations in state history — evacuating more than 1,000 people from remote, flood-battered villages on the coast of the Bering Sea — another rescue operation is playing out: getting the dogs left behind to safety, in hopes of later reuniting them with their owners.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Newly captured aerial footage from Alaska’s News Source shows the village of Kipnuk still reeling from the impacts of former Typhoon Halong, with scattered homes, standing water, and widespread flooding across the tundra.

In the wake of the storm that devastated western Alaska this week, there's been scrutiny of the Trump administration's cancellation of a grant that had been aimed at preventing erosion in Kipnuk, one of the hardest hit communities.