Yakutat

The National Weather Service issued a flood watch and high wind advisories and warnings throughout the region, concentrated mostly in the northern panhandle.

Meteorologists expected impacts in Juneau, Sitka, Gustavus, Elfin Cove, Haines, Skagway, and Yakutat.

Addie Perez is a meteorologist at the Weather Service in Juneau.

She said winds hit between 25 and 30 miles per hour, with gusts up to 60 miles per hour.

Thanks for having us on the show today, or me on the show today.

Uh, my name's Britta, and I am the community disaster program manager for the Red Cross of Alaska for Southeast Alaska, so Yakutat to Metlakatla, and I'm based out of Juneau.

I have been in this role for a little over six years.

My job is to support volunteers and support emergency management agency relationships and community partnerships.

And in Southeast, that's really where most of our rainfall is continuing to linger.

Over an inch of rainfall in Kodiak just from today alone, and in Juneau, a quarter of an inch of rainfall, and nearly half an inch of rain in Yakutat and Ketchikan.

And the morning is very young, only 6:00 in the morning, so we can expect plenty more heavy showers throughout the day today.

Now again, today is a first alert weather day in Southeast.

Nearly half of it's inventoried as roadless.

Judith Ramos is Tlinglit from Yakutat, where she did research on subsistence as an anthropologist for the Yakutat Tlinglit Tribe.

She says the community depends on the forest for food.

Almost twenty percent of the households got seventy-five percent of their, um, protein from subsistence.

My name is Alison Bremner.

I'm a Tlingit artist originally from Yakutat, Alaska.

I have been fortunate to work with some pretty great artists.

I learned under David Albert Boxley and David Robert Boxley.

My Tlingit name is Janu Tla.

My family comes from Rango or Shaqin Kwan and Yakutat Kwan or Yakutat.

And I am the direct lineal descent of Chief Shakes, Charlie Jones, of the Nanyai Mud Shark House or Hutkuhit.

And Gunasheesh.