The Beach Road slide, Thursday, May 8, 2025. (Will Steinfeld/Chilkat Valley News)

Around the Piedad area, there’s plenty of recent memory of the ground moving. That includes Geneva Randles’ household, where her mother and daughter were living in December 2020, when heavy rain caused landslides throughout Haines. Randles’ daughter Grace Comstock remembers the day — her grandmother seeing the unstable ground across the street, and the policeman knocking on the door. Then they evacuated. 

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Will Steinfeld is a documentary photographer and reporter in Southeast Alaska, formerly in New England.