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Threatened by stronger storms and a melting permafrost, Indigenous Alaskans are grappling with how to keep the power running to their freezers, which store their traditional subsistence foods.
Parts of Hooper Bay were without power for about 36 hours over the weekend. But the situation could have been far worse– and threatened the town’s winter subsistence stock– if not for the work of two local power plant operators.