Kicker - Lights out in Anchorage

MARY REICHARD, HOST: You know that feeling when you finally get the Christmas lights up and then realize half the lights don’t work once you plug it in?

Well, multiply that feeling a thousand times to understand what happened last week in Anchorage, Alaska.

Every year a 300-foot-wide star lights up the dark winter horizon of that city. A crew of airmen install the star above Anchorage in the Chugach Mountains.

But this year, a little trouble: half the light bulbs didn’t come on!

Turns out an avalanche took out the supports and wires. So crews contended with below-zero wind chill, 4,000 feet up!... on the slant of the mountain to make it right.

All 350 bulbs are shining brightly now, and they’ll stay lit until March, when the Iditarod Dog Race takes place.

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