About 8,600 Valley homes and businesses were still without power early Tuesday, with windchills forecast to be 20 to 35 degrees below zero
“We hope to make good progress today for our members, getting a majority of folks who have been out since late Saturday/early Sunday back on,” theNortheast winds of 25 to 40 mph were expected in the Matanuska Valley on Tuesday, with gusts up to 60 mph, an updated
The borough opened emergency shelters on Monday for people who could be endangered by the extreme cold. No deaths or serious injuries had been reported by Monday afternoon. “This could be dangerous and life threatening,” Braun said. “For those without power, frostbite can develop in as little as 15 minutes. So we want people to be aware of that and make sure they take precautions as necessary.”
“To describe the situation that we’re facing is every time we get some folks back on, we’re seeing another outage elsewhere,” Castro said. “And so we haven’t really been able to make a whole ton of headway in terms of seeing that number ultimately come down.” A fallen tree rests atop power lines on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022 in Palmer. Strong winds have knocked out power for around 15,000 people in the area.
“It came back on for maybe a couple of hours yesterday in the late morning, early afternoon,” he said. “And then it shut off again and it’s been off since.” “So we just kind of turned around and came back and figured for the most part we’re just melting snow and ice until the power comes back on, or we may try to get out to a bigger store sometime later today,” he said.
Temperatures in the rest of the house dropped to 37 degrees, she said, but the bedroom only got down to about 46 degrees. West said her betta fish also died because of the low temperatures. Nelson was concerned for her plants, some of which were inherited from her mother, so she crowded them near the propane stove in hopes of keeping them warm enough not to freeze. By Monday night, the temperature was about 65 degrees around the height of the stove, she said.
School facilities sustained only minor wind damage, Trani said. But transporting students to school posed a safety risk, he said.
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