Police and search and rescue crews are requesting the public’s assistance in locating 34-year-old Randy Jimmie, who has been missing in Bethel for two weeks.

Only a few Alaska disasters have qualified for a federal program that distributes as much as $85,000 per household.

A little over a week after a typhoon remnant slammed Western Alaska, residents and hundreds of evacuees are taking stock of the damage. Many from the villages are grappling with their generations-long connection to the land being floated out from under them.

During the storm, wind speeds on the island reached 100 miles per hour and caused massive flooding of low-lying areas, floating homes off their foundations in Nightmute and destroying the subsistence site known as Umkumiut.

Jeron Joseph, a survivor from Kwigillingok, tells his story.

As residents boarded air transports out of Kipnuk, they left what remained of their houses, belongings, and ancestral homeland behind. For many, that list also included their dogs. Nonprofits and individuals have stepped in to reunite pets with displaced families.

"Our tribal citizens will have to decide between fuel and food,” AFN President Ben Mallott told a U.S. Senate panel.

The Transportation Department previously said it had enough funding to continue the program through Nov. 2. Wednesday's notice pushes that back by about two weeks.

Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced a land exchange agreement Thursday with King Cove’s Native corporation, making way for the controversial construction of what many consider to be a lifesaving stretch of road.

As evacuees from villages like Kipnuk, Kwigillingok, Nightmute and Tuntutuliak boarded military helicopters bound for safety, many had no choice but to leave their dogs behind.