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by Netpackrat » Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:39 am
In town the roads are being fixed pretty rapidly. The ramps at International and Minnesota are repaired; they finished repaving yesterday and they were open again this morning. The Glenn highway is still fucked... The new eagle river bridge is damaged and down to 2 lanes, which sucks badly. Most things are running normally. I don't think they are yet allowing semi trucks over the Glenn, and the railroad is impassible also, so they need to get one of them fixed before Fairbanks starts running out of things.
Schools are closed until Monday.... Eagle River Elementary is not going to reopen this year, sounds like it is effectively destroyed and it is considered too dangerous to enter. I guess the teachers there are being told that if they had stuff in their classrooms, that stuff is gone because they are not going to be allowed to enter to recover it. All the teachers and students from that school are going to be relocated to other schools for the remainder of the year.
I guess there are some houses that have been found to not be habitable, but I don't know how common that is. Most of the people I know, their houses came through it fine. Most of the damaged houses I think are out in Eagle River.
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