ANCHORAGE, ALaska (AP) — A pair of Alaska teachers needed good news after they lost nearly all their possessions when their house collapsed into a river swollen by a glacial-outburst flood and their cat went missing.
That faith paid off 26 days after the flood when Tonya Mead posted a photo of Leo to the Juneau Community Collective Facebook page.
The couple returned to Juneau three days later to sort out new living arrangements and to look for Leo.
There were plenty of sightings of Leo, but Wilkins said it appears that there are just many black-and-white unhoused cats in Juneau.
“People have been finding some things, like some of our clothes and pictures were in 4 feet (1.22 meter) of silt in someone’s yard down the Mendenhall River,” Wilkins said.
Persons:
Elizabeth Wilkins, Leo, “, ”, Tonya Mead, Wilkins, Mead, Wilkens, Tom Schwartz, Schwartz, “ Leo, ” Wilkins
Organizations:
Juneau Community Collective
Locations:
ANCHORAGE, ALaska, Alaska, Mendenhall, Juneau, Suicide, Bend , Oregon, Juneau ., someone’s