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National Geographic : 1964 Jul
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"About that time the marine operator was calling boats on the radio," Bill Cuthbert said with a faint smile. "When she got to me, she says, 'Where are you, captain?' "So I told her-'By dead reckoning, in the schoolhouse yard.'" Another crab fisherman managed to anchor his boat in the harbor channel after the big wave came in, but found himself harassed by debris coming out on the backwash. "I didn't mind the little stuff," he told me, slightly aggrieved, "but then I got hit by the Standard Oil Company building. Lousy thing, she cracked my bow." As I walked through Kodiak a few days later, I could well believe the figures-77 of 160 crab and salmon boats gone or fearfully mauled, two of three canneries swept away, and the other unable to operate for two to three months. Seagoing Store Survives Disaster Benson Avenue, Kodiak's main street, was a nightmare jumble of heeled-over boats and crippled buildings, jammed together prow to window sill. In the thick of it all was the town's conversation piece-the much-trav eled Kraft's general store. Several residents of Kodiak insist that they saw Kraft's picked up on the first tide to sail majestically out on the ebb, clearing the jetty neatly. The store then altered course, they say, Pre-quake port of Seward-a section photographed last September by a United States Army reconnaissance plane-shows rail yards, docks, oil tanks, and a few homes. 130
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