Storm surge hits Toksook Bay

Storm surges against Toksook Bay on Oct. 1, 2015. (Photo courtesy Jimmie Lincoln)
October opened with the season’s first fall storm, flooding communities across Western Alaska’s coast. In the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, strong surges hit Toksook Bay.
“There was some massive wave action going on, and the cliffs were scoured by waves and some of our gabions, our seawalls, got damaged,” said Toksook Bay City Administrator Paul Chimiugak.
Gabions are cages of rocks often used to r