“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.

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.”