The Kennicott state ferry. (Courtesy/Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities)

By the time Deanna Strong realized she’d be stuck in Juneau Sunday evening, the Haines-bound ferry she was on had been pitching and rolling hard for nearly two hours.
“You couldn’t hardly get up without holding onto something, otherwise you were going to fall over,” she said. “It was nasty. There were big waves coming up over the railing, a lot of spray coming…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...