Wind causes 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 7,000 households in Matanuska Electric Association’s coverage area.
Most of the damage was caused by fallen trees, MEA spokeswoman Julie Estey said.
“These are pretty small, localized incidents,” she said. “They were widespread throughout our service areas, but they were primarily smaller outages impacting a couple of hundred to a couple of thousand membe