Uptown Emmonak/ community center

The snow is melting and I could not get onto the main ice this morning. The ice is rising up becsuse the water under the ice is rising. We had rain yesterday and they had rain upriver. There is flooding on the Tanana River which feeds into the Yukon. I was talking to folks about teaching at Manley, AK in a school with 10 kids. Manley is now flooded and they had to take people out in helicopters. Ice is the problem. Seems the ice backs up and the water goes around and into where people live.