Wind drives power outages in Mat-Su

High winds in Southcentral Alaska Sunday night and in the early hours of Monday morning knocked out power to more seven thousand households in Matanuska Electric Association’s coverage area.
MEA spokesperson Julie Estey says most of the damage was caused by fallen trees.
“These are pretty small, localized incidents. They were widespread throughout our service areas, but they were primarily smaller outages impacting a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand members each, caused just