-=> Quoting Mike Powell to NANCY BACKUS on 29-Jan-2019 17:28 <=-

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

Oh, dear.... Rather short-sighted to not leave at least a skeleton crew
behind just in case there was something happen like did.... all very
nice and all to go out helping others, but still should have kept a
reserve at home.... including some that knew what to do in a localized
emergency.... 

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

Apparently he wasn't local to you...?  just in a service call center...?

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

Good for him to mobilize them, and for them to come and help out... :) 
And very good that they could fix it easily... :)

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

Probably also for warm fuzzies.... but when they don't plan for local
contingencies to be taken care of while they are off helping others, the
publicity could easily backfire....  You'd think that at the least,
they'd've set up for a neighboring town to cover for them....

ttyl      neb

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