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Electric Linemen
Nonfiction • TV-14 • Directed by: Tougher In Alaska • 45 minutes
What does it take to keep the power on in a state where more than half of its people live off the grid, and plunging temperatures snap even the hardiest overhead electrical wires? Geo flies out to the remote village of Kasigluk to help install power poles and string electrical wire by hand (there are no bucket trucks in the bush) and he'll dig in with the linemen of the Golden Valley Electric Association, who brave temps as low as minus 40 in Fairbanks, just to keep the lights on in the state's second largest city.