On Thursday, Aug. 31, all the lights in Haines and Skagway went out in the middle of the day during a power outage. Haines gets its hydropower from Skagway via an undersea cable, and the power outage was caused by complications in north Skagway.
“We had a contractor run a vehicle into where the main transmission comes from underground and moves to a conduit up along a pole,” said Alaska Power & Telephone operations manager…