James Nelson
2:49 - 3:17
"We're going to have the power back up on the west feeder to as many people as possible probably here in the next half an hour to 45 minutes. That will stay on as long as the wind keeps down. If the wind comes back up, we got to cut it off again, and we might be cutting off other parts of town as too, as wind comes up or things start spring up."
“We're going to have the power back up on the west feeder to as many people as possible probably here in the next half an hour to 45 minutes. That will stay on as long as the wind keeps down. If the wind comes back up, we got to cut it off again, and we might be cutting off other parts of town as too, as wind comes up or things start spring up.”
- Speaker
- James Nelson
- Timestamp
- 2:49 – 3:17
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Tok
- Captured at
- August 21, 2026
From the transcript
We're going to have the power back up on the west feeder to as many people as possible probably here in the next half an hour to 45 minutes. That will stay on as long as the wind keeps down. If the wind comes back up, we got to cut it off again, and we might be cutting off other parts of town as too, as wind comes up or things start spring up. One thing about our power grid is it's not built in straight lines. Over the years, how this power grid was built, it actually snakes through a lot of stuff, especially on the north side of town where there's a lot of power.
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