Sharjah24 – Reuters: Drone footage of an Alaska avalanche filmed on Sunday (March 27) morning showed the size and scope of the event as authorities continued making risk assessments amid evacuation orders.
Residents of a suburb of Anchorage were ordered on Sunday to evacuate a mountainous area days after the avalanche buried a mountain road. However, an update issued later in the day by authorities reported that mitigation efforts were successful and that teams were assessing the risk involved in allowing evacuated residents to return home.
The avalanche roared down a mountainside shortly before midnight local time on Thursday (March 24) (0800 GMT) covering the main road with a snow layer up to 80 feet (24 meters) deep. But only about half of the snow in the unstable slide zone was released then, and a secondary avalanche is considered certain, local officials said.
There have been no injuries reported and authorities are assessing the extent of damage to houses, officials said.
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