Homer Electric Association shut down power briefly at 7 p.m. Monday in a planned outage. The outage affected downtown Homer, the Homer Spit, West Hill Road, Diamond Ridge, East Hill Road and parts of East End Road. Power was fully restored by 7:08 p.m., said HEA spokesperson Joe Gallagher.

"It did go well," Gallagher said. "There was a lot of cooperation from the community as we worked with the radio stations and the police department to get the word to everybody that this would be taking place."

HEA shut down power to take out of service a breaker at the Hatfield substation near the HEA offices on Lake Street. The breaker, about the size of a small refrigerator, had been leaking fluid and needed to be removed before it failed. To do so meant shutting down power. Crews rerouted the electrical load through another circuit. They were still making repairs to the breaker on Tuesday.

An Era flight to Homer landed at the airport before power went out. The Homer Airport does not have back-up generators, and the landing lights went out. When landing lights go down because of power outages, the airport issues a notice to aviators, said Roger Wetherell, chief communications officer for the Department of Transportation and Public Facilities. Night time operations are terminated when landing lights go out. If pilots can land in the light remaining, they have to do so following visual flight rules.