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Odd News Dispatch

VIDEO: Stunning Moment Wind Tears Roof off Its Trusses

Gusts reaching 110 mph tore through the Anchorage, Alaska area last weekend causing destruction

By Bryan Gottlieb
January 15, 2025

The Anchorage, Alaska, metropolitan area was beset by hurricane-force gusts last weekend, causing several structural failures, including one home in the city's Muldoon neighborhood that saw part of a roof ripped straight off its trusses — with the incident captured on a neighbor’s security video.

Muldoon resident Steven Wood’s Ring home security camera caught the jaw-dropping moment when the roof of an adjacent house failed, telling KTUU-TV, which first reported the story, that his family had just finished breakfast and were watching the high winds 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.”

The incident happened shortly after 11 a.m. on Jan. 12. The National Weather Service said the Anchorage metropolitan area had experienced strong winds beginning last Saturday evening that continued throughout Sunday, with peak gusts approaching upward of 110 mph. For context, windspeeds of 110 mph would register at the far edge of a Category 2 hurricane.

Wood said the roofing material smashed a gazebo on the property, which he estimated to be nearly 1,000 pounds. His neighbor’s roof was just one of several structures that failed during the high winds.

A pedestrian bridge spanning the Seward Highway in Anchorage, Alaska, partially collapsed onto the roadway.Debris from a pedestrian bridge spanning the Seward Highway in Anchorage, Alaska, was strewn onto the roadway following a day of severe winds that battered the area. The National Weather Service reported peak gusts reaching 110 mph, the top end of a Category 2 hurricane.

Alaska Public Radio reported that a pedestrian bridge spanning the Seward Highway partially collapsed onto the roadway early Sunday morning, closing the highway for several hours. The bridge’s concrete walkway still stood, but the steel and wooden railings and roof fell victim to the winds.

Wood said the flying debris hurt no one in his family, but the visuals and noise were unsettling, at best.

“It hit and made some loud noises,” he said, adding, “It was scary.”


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Bryan Gottlieb is the online editor at Engineering News-Record (ENR).

Gottlieb is a five-time Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award winner with more than a decade of experience covering business, construction, and community issues. He has worked at Adweek, managed a community newsroom in Santa Monica, Calif., and reported on finance, law, and real estate for the San Diego Daily Transcript. He later served as editor-in-chief of the Detroit Metro Times and was managing editor at Roofing Contractor, where he helped shape national industry coverage.

Gottlieb covers breaking news, large-scale infrastructure projects, new products and business.


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