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If you have never experienced a huge weather event and been without power then you may find this post very odd. After Hurricane Katrina, the County Fairgrounds and County Soccer Fields were the staging area for the teams of electric companies that descended upon the Mississippi Gulf Coast. These men and women were some of the unsung heroes of the recovery efforts.
Now that Hurricane Gustav has past us by, electric companies have once again sent their trucks and faithful employees to the area for the hard work of getting businesses and residences connected to power. You just can't have recovery without electricity. They mobilize a small "tent city" complete with portable bathrooms and showers and huge tents with kitchens. It is amazing to see what they can do in a very short period of time to "build" a temporary city for their employees to "come home to" every evening. This morning on the way to work caravans of trucks representing any number of electric companies and co-ops began pouring out of the staging area headed for I-10. They were ready to tackle the tough work of getting electricity back up to more than one million people!
My hat goes off to these dedicated men and women. I am thankful for the sacrifice they make on our behalf!
2 comments:
Glad you're safe. I saw on our news today the the Western Mass electric trucks are headed your way. All will be well soon. :)
Saw you on the CWO blogroll and that you were a knitter like me and thought I'd say hello.
I love me some power guys! The tent cities are amazing (talk about planning ahead)- our Days Inn also fills up and they hang out in the parking lot in the evening. As much as I love them, I hope we don't see much of them this year!
Glad y'all are safe!
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