Notes on Team Members

Notes on Travel coming soon

Time-lapse of housing construction

Notes on Construction --Cold Climate Housing - Galena Plans

What Happened?

• We made the news while there.
• Updated: Rebuild Alaskan Homes Affected by the Yukon River Flooding (UMVIM)
• Galena, Alaska Struggles to Rebuild After Yukon River Ice Jam Causes Devastating Flood 6/17/13
  
• Hard lessons for FEMA: Galena rebuilds with federal help, in spite of federal help
  

Who's Helping?

• UMVIM  (United Methodist Volunteers in Mission) & Pacific Northwest UMVIM who coordinated this project.
• Dave Harris, is went June 2-18, 2014, a mission vacation.
• FEMA is helping too. They have a video here.

Galena is...

• Where's Galena? And some history from Wikipedia.
• Galena's Web Site. Just under 500 people, who form the out of the way hub for the region.  70% of the population is indigenous.

Video of flood damage & Housing design

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