A man took videos as his home floated away with him inside in Alaska’s storms

AP The remnant storms of Typhoon Halong tore into western Alaska with such ferocity that they pulled Steven Anaver s home from its foundation and buoyed it across choppy water with him inside Videos he shared Monday with The Associated Press convey the desperate scene as the waters rose inside his home and the flooding raged outside The storms blistering winds and record-high water levels laid waste to several small communities Oct displacing more than people and requiring one of the largest part critical airlift operations in Alaska history At least one person is dead and two others are missing The water started rising hurriedly Saturday night in Anaver s village of Kwigillingok It s one of two Yup ik communities that were hit hardest Anaver looked out through his window into pitch-black darkness The power had long since been out The storm was the worst he d seen At around a m on Sunday the water level jumped rising to his knees in about minutes Shortly after the home teetered tilted and started floating Plastic bags boxes of blankets a leather boot and furniture cushions floated in videos Anaver took from inside The walls swayed like a ship s Outside the dark waters lapped the house just a sparse feet from the window as the home drifted away Anaver heard loud booms and frigid wind rushed through a hole that opened in one wall This was a big challenge for my anxiety he disclosed I kept calling my family More booms shook the home as the waves crashed it into other structures Oh God he wrote in a Facebook post around a m Anaver tried to take pictures to orient where he was the camera could see better than his eyes in the darkness but it was futile until the moon came out later that morning He could see a house he recognized He d floated for roughly a mile A small hill with a board sticking out of it had stopped Anaver s home just feet from the river which had dragged other houses much farther away After a m when the water had receded enough two neighbors in waders came over and helped him out Three days later Anaver posted a video on Facebook of the hours drifting in his own home I was inches away from death he wrote I escaped