Most of the areas surrounding Anchorage seem to have avoided serious damage from last night’s wind storm.
Matanuska Susitna Borough deputy emergency services director Casey Cook says the Borough got “some wind and rain” but not much else. Seward, Girdwood and Whittier also fared relatively well.
But the story around Chugiak was quite different. Ray Holmsen in who lives in the Birchwood area near Chugiak, says he’s never seen anything like the storm in the 45 years he’s lived on North Birchwood Loop
Holmsen says he lost about 50 trees on his property, all birches.
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APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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