After a string of fatal landslides, is this a new normal for Southeast Alaska?

A house on Second Avenue in Ketchikan is flipped sideways and destroyed by the Aug. 25 landslide. (Jack Darrell/KRBD)
Ketchikan gets more rain than almost anywhere else in Alaska. It’s the kind of rain you have to dump out of your coat pockets before you come inside. Mountainsides across the channel on Gravina Island are streaked with scars from landslides in years past.
But even so, landslides never felt like a threat, said Ketchikan mayor and local historian Dave Kiffer.
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