“We don’t have any water. We don’t have any cell service at our house. So you do feel really isolated,” said Kelly Johnson, who lives off Hiland Road. “But it’s so impressive how everybody comes together to help everybody.”
March 29, 2022
To get out, she had to hop on a snowmachine shuttle run by city workers. They traveled about a mile on a narrow and bumpy path through spruce trees, across the valley from an 80-foot tall mound of avalanche debris that had covered their normal route to town.Johnson is among about 150 Alaskans who can’t drive out of their neighborhood in the Chugach Mountains above Eagle River. Last Thursday’s avalanche piled onto Hiland Road, creating a giant wall of ice and snow.
Johnson borrowed a car to get from the snowmachine shuttle to town. She even had a friend drop off diesel generators by helicopter so she could keep her house warm.The snowmachine shuttle staging grounds at the end of Birdsong Road. City workers are shuttling residents on a nearly one-mile path through the woods to the area cut off by the avalanche. Workers say they’re taking turns sleeping in a bus parked there.
Through a local Facebook group, neighbors have also been coordinating grocery trips and car sharing. They’ve been dropping off food and mail for one another. On Monday, Pruner had just finished hiking in snowshoes down a narrow path through the woods that she stomped out to her house below Hiland Road. She’d started bringing her valuables back now that the avalanche risk was down. A wall of snow was visible a few hundred feet behind her on Hiland Road with spruce trees poking out at odd angles.While Pruner is comfortable returning to her house briefly to put things back together, she said she doesn’t want to sleep there overnight.
It’s not the first time Hiland Road has gotten blocked with avalanches. Usually though, they’re cleared within a day, said Ken Moon, who has lived in the valley off and on since 1960.
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