Photos: Aleutians communities recovering in wake of Bering Sea storm

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The City of Adak released these images on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2015 of damage from a storm that brought 122 mph wind gusts to the Aleutian Islands community over the previous weekend.

A storm that blasted Alaska's Aleutian Islands over the weekend has passed, leaving locals a chance to assess the damage before more winter weather arrives later this week.

The storm, roughly on par with the remnants of Typhoon Nuri that entered the Bering Sea in November 2014, brought hurricane-force winds to a wide swath of the Aleutians as well as high seas to the Pribilof Islands and much of Western Alaska.

Dan Peterson, a forecaster at the National Weather Service's Anchorage office, said the storm that caused the damage was dissipating in the Bering Strait and likely to collapse completely on Thursday.

In Adak, about 350 miles west of Unalaska, City Manager Layton Lockett said in a statement Tuesday that the community's critical infrastructure had weathered the storm with only brief outages, despite widespread damage elsewhere from a storm he equated with a Category 3 hurricane.

"The city recorded wind gusts over 100 mph for a period of 9 hours during the night of December 12-13," Lockett wrote. "Peak wind gusts reached 122 mph for a period of two hours during that time."

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