UPDATES: Mat-Su schools will be closed again Tuesday. More than 15,000 homes and businesses were still without power at midday Monday. The state and borough have issued disaster declarations.
members were still without power. Roughly 22,000 members had been without power at one point Sunday. The outages were concentrated near Wasilla and Palmer but stretched along the Parks Highway toward Talkeetna.
Crews were working 16-hour shifts to make repairs and additional crews would be coming to the area Monday from Anchorage and the Interior, Castro 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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