Kwigillingok Residents in Limbo a Year After Halong — SkimNews
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- Lucy Martin's family was among the last to be evacuated from Kwigillingok, the Yup'ik village a quarter mile from the Bering Sea that Typhoon Halong devastated in October 2025.
- Typhoon Halong struck in October 2025, devastating Kwigillingok with the floodwaters that swept away the Alaskan Native village, which sits a quarter mile from the Bering Sea.
- Kwigillingok's tribal resilience coordinator, Lucy Martin, was still in Bethel a year after the October 2025 flooding, with village residents remaining in limbo.
Why it matters: Typhoon Halong hit Kwigillingok in October 2025, and one year later Lucy Martin, the village's tribal resilience coordinator, is still in Bethel with residents in limbo. The concrete stake for this Yup'ik community a quarter mile from the Bering Sea is that the person responsible for its resilience still works away from home a full year after the flooding.
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