Inchelium - Tom Berg lives in a home above Lake Roosevelt in a remote part of northeastern Washington. But thanks to the California electricity crisis, the pharmacist is about to get a dose of life Los Angeles style.
Berg's 10-minute commute to work by ferry is going to turn into a 60-mile one-way trip because pressure to run the hydroelectric turbines at Grand Coulee Dam day and night to provide power to California is draining the manmade lake.
It is the same story for many people in and around Inchelium, a town of 1,100 people who are used to traveling to Spokane for banking, shopping and medical care. Perhaps more than those of any other community, the residents of this town on the Colville Indian reservation are sacrificing to keep the lights on in places like Silicon Valley.
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