Roof ripped off Anchorage home amid intense wind gusts
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - The roof of an Anchorage home was partially torn off Sunday morning in a Muldoon neighborhood and was captured on stunning security video.
Steven Wood — whose Ring home security camera caught the moment that part of the roof was ripped off the top of an adjacent house — said he and his family had just finished breakfast and were watching the high winds whip around outside when it happened.
“All of a sudden, I see the roof start to peel off, and all I can yell is, ‘Incoming! Everybody run!’” he recounted.
“All the plywood hit the window, it blew glass all over the house, it’s down the hallway, down the stairs, and it actually separated the drywall in the bedroom, it hit so hard.”
Wood said the roofing material also smashed a gazebo on the property that he estimates to be near 1,000 pounds. The force of the wind and roofing material flying also flipped over a grill on the deck and into the yard.
The roof came off just after 11 a.m. Winds at the time were recorded nearby, measuring close to 75 mph.
Anchorage and the Mat-Su were battered overnight Saturday into Sunday by the severe windstorm that saw a peak gust of 110 mph in Bear Valley.
The roof damage wasn’t the only major structure that failed; a pedestrian bridge spanning the Seward Highway near Rabbit Creek Elementary School partially collapsed onto the roadway early Sunday morning, closing the highway for several hours. The bridge’s concrete walkway was still standing, but the steel and wooden railings and roof fell victim to the winds.
The storm also left moderate flooding in some places, including in Palmer and an Eagle River woman’s basement that saw an estimated five feet of water.
Wood said no one in his family was hurt by the roof coming off, pointing to the physical debris left in his yard as the only aftermath that was visible.
“The girls were quick to run down the hallway, and it hit and made some loud noises,” he said. “It was scary.
“Everyone’s safe. All this can be replaced and fixed.”
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