Bethel News

On the stretch of East Fourth Avenue where the road dips toward the Anchorage jail, an eight-foot-tall heart made of dusty plastic vodka bottles pulses in the wind.

Life is returning to normal after flooding earlier this week forced more than two dozen people to evacuate the village of Kwethluk on the lower Kuskokwim River.

The Reel Life has lived in a dry town, and knows how annoying it can be to have to drive to the next town over to buy some beer, wine and spirits.

Huge sheetsof ice are clogging the Kuskokwim River in Alaska, flooding villages and forcing residents to evacuate by air to the town of Bethel in southwest Alaska.

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Fifteen miles upriver of Bethel, the village of Kwethluk is flooding in all low lying areas.

The flood incident commander says river conditions have worsened since then flooding low lying areas and other parts of the community with about 6 inches of water.

It's looking more and more certain that we will have an Obama Summer , as opposed to an Arab Spring.