> -=> Quoting Maurice Kinal to Nancy Backus on 20-Jan-2019 17:36 <=-

>  NB>> very willing to show their appreciation for the work done by the
>  NB>> visiting work crews

>  MK> As well as the local crews.  Speaking for myself, I showed no bias as
>  MK> to where the crew was from that worked on our particular stretch of
>  MK> line.

> True... one would just be grateful to any crew that was restoring the
> power.... :)

A few years back, we had a very localized power outage.  Actually, the
local power company had made it a little worse by turning the power off to
a larger area (when it was not necessary).  Thing was that the local power
company had apparently sent ALL of their trucks and/or linemen multiple
states away for hurricane duty, so the only way the folks left over knew to
turn off the power in the downed-line area was to turn it off to the much
larger area, and then wait and wait until someone could eventually fix it.

This happened on a Friday night.  I called that night, and again the next
day.  Was told it would be fixed by Saturday evening.  Saturday had turned
out to be the hottest day of the year.  Early Sunday morning I called
again.  The same guy answered and, when asked about it, said "that is not
fixed yet?"

A couple of hours later, a power truck from two towns over was there fixing
it.  Took them less than 20 minutes.  Next day, I called that power company
and thanked them for coming to my town to fix the power when our company
was unable to.

They do the hurricane thing for publicity and then cannot even help their
own town out.

Mike

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