A storm crossing the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska Peninsula from the Bering Sea brought hurricane-force winds -- as well as weather-related injuries and damage -- to the region Wednesday.
Greta Mart, a reporter with Unalaska radio station KUCB, said in an email Wednesday morning that local emergency responders had issued a travel advisory urging people to watch for blowing debris and to park cars facing into the wind.
One person suffered eye injuries as glass flew from an imploding window.
Mart said schools in Unalaska were closed for the day under an order issued Tuesday.
Mike Holman, Unalaska's deputy police chief, told KUCB that property damage from the storm included broken windows, a downed street light and a shipping container found in a roadway.
Michael Kutz, a forecaster in the National Weather Service's Anchorage office, said numerous Aleutians locations reported high wind gusts overnight Tuesday, including a 93 mph gust in Akutan.
The U.S. Coast Guard's District 17 command center, covering Alaska, said no vessels in the region were reported missing or in distress as of 11 a.m. Wednesday.
Kutz said the storm would affect weather in Southcentral Alaska, including the Mat-Su, starting Wednesday night.
"It's going to give us some windier conditions," Kutz said. "The Matanuska (Valley) will be more of an easterly or northeasterly, while the Susitna will see more northerly type winds."
Ultimately, forecasters expect the storm to end its travels Thursday morning in an area roughly 80 miles west of Yakutat.
"It'll just wobble around and decay away," Kutz said.