Unalaska, AK – Although Unalaska got a reprieve from yesterday's high winds today, continuing heavy rains have caused problems for at least one local business.

Rain and snowmelt eroded the banks of a creek flowing out of the Pyramid Valley and flooded the crab pot yard maintained by Offshore Systems, Inc. at the end of Captains Bay Road this morning. OSI's operating facilities manager, Craig Rice, said the moved earth divided the stream into three channels, which quickly swelled and flooded the pot yard and part of the road.

"[The rain and snowmelt] combined together to generate a force that I would say literally almost moved half a mountain," he said.

A couple of OSI employees were able to use a backhoe to get the stream back into its original channel. Rice said the concern now is getting things rebuilt so the 11,000 crab pots stored in the yard are accessible for the start of opilio crab season in January.

"We can't get at some of those crab pots for the vessels," he said. "But we're going to move some earth around, do some stuff--we'll get 'er back."