Photo: Epic storm wreaks havoc in Alaska

At the height of the storm that hit northwestern Alaska this week, Sandra Quinn, the principal of the school outside Little Diomede in the middle of the Bering Sea, took this photo of huge waves scooping up sea cans. By the morning of Nov. 10, the strong winds associated with this storm, which moved east from the Bering Sea, had diminished to 80 km/hour but the National Weather Service in Alaska was still calling for storm surges in coastal communities due to the “extremely dangerous and life-threatening storm of an epic magnitude rarely experienced.” For more coverage and photos of Alaska’s storm, go to the Alaska Dispatch at http://bit.ly/soh6sv or the Anchorage Daily News at http://bit.ly/t6N5Vm.