周末的暴风雨摧毁了该州西南部的两个村庄，导致逾1500人流离失所。

阿拉斯加当局正在从该州西南海岸被上周末台风残余淹没的村庄撤离数百人，这是该州历史上“规模最大”的空运行动之一。

上周末，台风"海龙"的残余势力袭击了位于该州西南部的育空-库斯科奎姆三角洲偏远社区，摧毁了两座小村庄，导致1500多人流离失所。

受灾最严重的社区包括人口715人的基普努克和人口380人的奎吉林戈克。据阿拉斯加公共媒体报道，这两个社区的避难条件十分艰苦，当地政府已请求州政府疏散居民。

基普纳克部落行政官巴吉·卡尔向APM透露，许多居民避难的奎吉林戈克学校厕所已无法使用。此外，基普纳克地区的电力和通信服务也处于时断时续的状态。

据阿拉斯加州军事与退伍军人事务部称，约300名撤离人员正被送往安克雷奇，该地距离受灾社区数百英里。但当地政府承认，并非所有居民都愿意撤离。

应急管理办公室发言人杰里米·兹德克周三晚间无法确切说明这些撤离人员来自何处。他表示，受灾社区中的部分民众可能会选择留下或与他人同住。

官员表示，阿拉斯加西南部地区中心伯特利的避难所空间已接近饱和。

美国国家气象局表示，上周末的暴风雨带来了飓风级强风，导致沿岸社区潮位线比正常水平高出6英尺（约1.8米）。

“基普纳克的情况堪称灾难。我们无需粉饰现实，”州应急管理部门事故指挥官马克·罗伯茨在周二的新闻发布会上表示，“我们正竭尽所能持续支援该社区，但灾情之严重超乎想象。”

这些社区位于白令海沿岸附近，只能通过船只或飞机抵达。此次危机引发了人们对特朗普政府削减联邦拨款的关注，这些拨款原本旨在帮助一些以原住民为主的小型村落抵御风暴侵袭或降低灾害风险。

例如，美国环境保护局向基普努克提供的2000万美元拨款被特朗普政府终止，这一举措遭到了环保组织的质疑。

基普纳克部落行政官卡尔表示，他当时只专注于一件事。

“眼下，我们正努力说服大家在下一场风暴来临前撤离。”他说道。

Weekend storm devastated two villages and displaced more than 1,500 people in the south-western part of the state

Authorities in Alaska are evacuating hundreds from villages on the states south-west coast that were inundated by the remnants of a typhoon last weekend, in one of the most significant airlifts in the states history.

Over the weekend, the remnants of Typhoon Halong hit remote communities in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, in the south-western part of the state, decimating two small villages and displacing more than 1,500 people.

The hardest-hit communities included Kipnuk, population 715, and Kwigillingok, population 380. Shelter conditions in both communities were rough, Alaska Public Media reported , and local authorities had asked the state to evacuate residents.

At the Kwigillingok school, where many residents had taken refuge, toilets were not working, Buggy Carl, a Kipnuk tribal administrator, told APM. In Kipnuk, power and telecommunications were spotty.

About 300 evacuees were being brought to Anchorage, hundreds of miles from the battered communities, according to Alaskas department of military and veterans affairs. But local authorities acknowledged not all residents would be willing to evacuate.

Jeremy Zidek, the emergency management office spokesperson, could not say on Wednesday evening where exactly those evacuees were from. He said some people in the affected communities might choose to stay back or to stay with others.

Shelter space in the south-west Alaska regional hub of Bethel had been reaching capacity, officials said.

The weekend storm brought hurricane-force winds and pushed the tide line 6ft (1.8 meters) above normal in the communities, according to the National Weather Service.

Its catastrophic in Kipnuk. Lets not paint any other picture, Mark Roberts, an incident commander with the state emergency management division, said during a news conference on Tuesday. We are doing everything we can to continue to support that community, but it is as bad as you can think.

The communities are located near the Bering Sea coastline, and are only accessible by boat or air. The crisis has drawn attention to Trump administration cuts to federal grants aimed at helping some small, mostly Indigenous villages prepare for the ravages of storms or mitigate their disaster risks.

A $20m US Environmental Protection Agency grant to Kipnuk for example, was terminated by the Trump administration, a move challenged by environmental groups.

Carl, the Kipnuk tribal administrator, said he was focused on one thing.

Right now, just trying to convince everybody to go before the next storm hits, he said.