{"id":154,"date":"2008-04-17T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2008-04-17T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2008-04-17T18:44:53","slug":"avalanches-are-a-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/avalanches-are-a-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanches Are A Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/stories\/041708\/loc_269314122.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/269314184.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-156\" style=\"float: right; border: 0; margin: 5px;\" title=\"Down Power\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/269314184-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Avalanche Area\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/stories\/041708\/loc_269314122.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">According to the local paper<\/a>, our power rates are likely to quintuple next month as a result of the avalanche that knocked out Juneau&#8217;s supply of hydro power. The whole city is currently running off of\u00a0diesel generators and will most likely continue to run off of them for the next 3 to 4 months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The transmission line to Juneau from the Snettisham Power House, about 40 miles south of town, went down at 3:54 a.m., Wood said. The avalanche started three miles from the power house. It was 1.5 miles across.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #551a8b; text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/269314314.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-155\" style=\"float: right; border: 0; margin: 5px;\" title=\"269314314\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/269314314-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Utility Diesel Generators\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/span>A helicopter was used by Alaska Electric Light and Power Co (AEL&amp;P) to assess the damage. One of the transmission towers was down completely and four others were damaged. The bad weather at the time prevented AEL&amp;P from making a complete assessment of the\u00a0damage. To add insult to injury, shortly after the the helicopter left another avalanche took out additional towers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It&#8217;s just a terrible place to have a transmission line,&#8221; AEL&amp;P General Manager Tim McLeod said. &#8220;Those are straight-up-and-down cliffs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the local paper, our power rates are likely to quintuple next month as a result of the avalanche that knocked out Juneau&#8217;s supply of hydro power. The whole city is currently running off of\u00a0diesel generators and will most likely continue to run off of them for the next 3 to 4 months.\u00a0 The &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/avalanches-are-a-pain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Avalanches Are A Pain&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_import_markdown_pro_load_document_selector":0,"_import_markdown_pro_submit_text_textarea":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,4,6],"tags":[99,100,94],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qkdN-2u","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yousephtanha.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}