What happens when a town goes dark? Inside Steilacoom’s two-day power outage

What happens when a town goes dark? Inside Steilacoom’s two-day power outage

Homes in Steilacoom were dark Thursday, and many people were at the beach as the Pierce County town entered its first day of a two-day power outage.From 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday and Friday, no one in town will have access to electrical power unless they’ve acquired a generator. It’s part of a planned outage, so workers can do proactive maintenance on the local substation, which supplies 100% of the power to the town, as previously reported by T…