Strong winds affecting power, travel in Mat-Su

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Gusts of wind were measured at 82 mph in Palmer, and strong winds across the Matanuska-Susitna Borough have knocked out power to over 10,000 Matanuska Electric Association customers on Sunday afternoon.

that will be in effect until Jan. 3. Matanuska Electric Association Public Relations Manager Jennifer Castro said that four large feeder outages impacting over 1,000 members each are located in the Wasilla area.

“We have all of our available in-house linemen crews and some contract crews that are working on the many outages which are spread out throughout our service territory. We will continue to work until we have everyone back on. We greatly appreciate the patience of our members as some outages are taking much longer to restore, depending on the storm related damage in their area.

Castro said that over 13,000 members were without power at 10 a.m. on Sunday. According to the outage map, over 15% of Matanuska Electric Association members were without power on Sunday afternoon. The Glenn Highway was reopened to both northbound and southbound traffic at 6:03 p.m. last night, but troopers still warn residents to travel cautiously.

 

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Be safe and careful to those affected.

Some gusts here in Anchorage more than 37mph.

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