Record tides that flooded King Salmon on Thursday continued to swell on Friday morning, inundating local businesses, yards and even homes — many of which had never been flooded before. Friday morning’s tide provisionally broke the National Weather Service’s all-time record for the region, and storms and southerly wind may result in an even higher tide on Saturday.Longtime residents, including Greg Stephens, who has operated a shop for his property management business on King Salmon Ave. for more than a decade, said that they had never seen flooding as severe as Friday morning’s.“A friend of mine had the shop for 18 years before this, and I’ve been here 11 years, and this is the first time it’s ever crested (and risen over the boundaries of the canal into the shop),” Stephens said. “Yesterday it got sort of close. It got to the stoop yesterday with maybe two inches to spare … it just came in a little bit today, … but we still have to work.”Keep Reading
