Anchorage residents still could expect high winds gusting throughout the area on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Winds could reach 90 miles per hour along Turnagain Arm and the upper hillside areas of town. Winds could reach 40 miles per hour in East Anchorage. There were only a few reports of power outages on Sunday morning but power had been quickly restored. The area had braced itself for another wind storm like the one that had knocked out power throughout the region earlier in the month.
WEATHER
POWER
- Office of Emergency Management: Windstorm and Power Outage Information
- Municipal Light & Power Facebook
- ML&P phone 279-7671 or 1-888-999-5340
- ML&P website
- Chugach Electric Facebook
- Chugach phone 762-7888 or toll-free at 1-800-478-7494
- Chugach website
- Matanuska Electric Association Facebook
- MEA phone in Mat-Su Valley: 746-7697
- MEA phone in in Eagle River: 696-7697
- MEA website
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
- Anchorage Conditions Hotline: 907-343-4701
- Red Cross: Emergency kit
- MOA: Emergency Management
- Alaska Division of Homeland Security & Emergency Management
- DHHS: Food Safety During a Power Outage (PDF)
- OEM: More Wind on the Way Helpful information and how you can prepare (PDF) Sept. 12, 2012
- ML&P: Customers Urged to Prepare for Possible Outages (PDF) Sept. 13, 2012
- MOA: Wood Lot Season Further Extended (PDF) Sept. 13, 2012
- MOA: Wood Lot Summary Grid (PDF) Sept. 13, 2012
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Annie Feidt is the broadcast managing editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach her atafeidt@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Anniehere.
