Well, if we know anything or have learned anything about these storms, it is that the weathermen are terrible at getting any of this stuff right. Well, that's until it's standing on our doorstep beating down the door, then they get it right about 50 percent of the time. Can you imagine how few lineman there would be if we did our jobs as bad as they do theirs?
That being said, the forcast is grim and, as of right now, they are calling for some serious rain and crazy sustained winds with gusts over 80mph. All this, ladies and gentlemen, with leaves still on the trees, especially down along the shore. Fill up your generators, this could go the distance. Typically in the North East, when we see gusts to 40mph over a few hours, we can easily be looking at outages in the tens of thousands. So sustained over two days with gusts double that....hmmmm. Did I mention generator?
Had a lineman from Chicago yesterday contact us through www.linemanwear.com to let us know he was on the road and heading our way. We are going to need all the help we can get if these weather guys are even remotely close with their predictions.
Work Safe,
Eric
I am curious to know how long it takes for you guys to get back to your normal daily routine after a large storm. I know that it will depend on the size/severity of a storm but I would imagine that there are weeks and weeks of repairs and inspections that must be done after each storm by lineman. Would it be possible to do a blog post on something like this to get a better glimpse of the daily routine?
ReplyDeleteThe reason I ask is that I am the owner of a website dedicated to providing career profiles and information and think that that information would be interesting to my readers.
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