Since there was large inventories & sales of free standing air-conditioning
units in greater Anchorage area starting two years ago, there've been 
more summer outages in this general area than any previous time. 

Used to be, when people could only get a few good box-fans, the power stayed on.

Last summer's biggest power outage occurred two days after there was a large sale of air-conditioning units by more than one reseller.  Given the bundled GCI stuff all goes out with a power outage, I'm for one glad this time my area was spared. 

Often the winter is when power goes out; then I have to drive to a gas station to borrow use of their telephone. A land line, it isn't affected by GCI Bundle Failure. To report the outage to Chugach. Only once in 8 years of having GCI Bundle, have I been able use land phone call in outage. 

No dial tone, nothing. Not even 9-1-1. 
We need power for the medical equipment;
in the winter, heat. Elders have trouble.

We (alaskans) used to have 'redundancy'.