About 4,000 customers of Chugach Electric Association in Anchorage were without power on Thursday morning, as wintery winds blasted through the area with wet snow, especially knocking out power east of the New Seward Highway, but also affecting others from Lake Hood to downtown.
From the Chugach Electric summary, it looks like a lot of small outages, rather than one big area. The number of outages will keep crews busy on Thursday.
Campbell Airstrip area has 609, DeBarr has over 700, and O’Malley has over 655 as of 8:45 am.
A couple of small airplanes at Merrill Field flipped out of their tie-downs, according to local aviators.
Weather is 34 degrees with a high expected of 45 degrees.
Overnight, Homer Electric customers also had a weather-related power outage, but almost customers were showed as having power by Thursday morning. Winter weather advisories are in place across all of Southcentral Alaska at the National Weather Service.
