Days til WTD9 2011
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From: BROOKVILLE
Well, I,m back - what a day yesterday was - has Looter posted up anything yet? Us electric Co. guys gotta stick together!
(Started work yesterday morning at 8:00 AM - got back home last night at 1:30 am, after taking a nasty fall! 1 to 1 1/4" of ice in the mountains and it's just awful!)
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From: Cincinnati, Ohio
Originally Posted by LINESUPER,Feb 3 2011, 01:40 PM
Well, I,m back - what a day yesterday was - has Looter posted up anything yet? Us electric Co. guys gotta stick together!
(Started work yesterday morning at 8:00 AM - got back home last night at 1:30 am, after taking a nasty fall! 1 to 1 1/4" of ice in the mountains and it's just awful!)
Hey Dave... I have been on here...17 hours yesterday, and they are saying, 16 more today...That should pretty much take care of southern Ohio.......but Indiana ???? The guys will be over there a couple more days... We sent all of our outta state, contractors over there, about noon today !!!
I have just about, had enough....
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From: BROOKVILLE
[QUOTE] Hey Dave... I have been on here...17 hours yesterday, and they are saying, 16 more today...That should pretty much take care of southern Ohio....
...but Indiana ???? The guys will be over there a couple more days... We sent all of our outta state, contractors over there, about noon today !!!
I have just about, had enough....
...but Indiana ???? The guys will be over there a couple more days... We sent all of our outta state, contractors over there, about noon today !!!
I have just about, had enough....
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From: Cincinnati, Ohio
Originally Posted by LINESUPER,Feb 3 2011, 02:21 PM
Lucky you - long hours, but with "warm" fringes. 
I spent 17 hours out in the cold top kicking contractors and running crew. Managed to slip on the ice at mid-night last night to bring my adventures in utility work to a sudden, pain inflicted halt. Managed to nurse myself out of the woods and back home for rest
, only to arrive at work today to find things in good order and most all accounts back in service 
Oh, and an HR person in my office with an accident form to fill out for the subsequence investagation, and mandatory beating. 
I know what you are saying, with regard to the "Beating"...God forbid, anyone getting hurt...especially when you are out in this kind of weather, so frozen you can't even think, and worst of all...it's pitch black, snot is running, and your eyes are frozen shut...and you are attempting to restore 13,000 volts of power, to some 90 year old person that hasn't had heat.. ( electric )...for 20 hours...that lives 2 miles down some dirt road, back in the woods... Just about sums it up, doesn't it Dave... 
....and after all this bitching, and moaning, and cussing...you still feel wonderful, about yourself, for what you have done !!!
What a job..."HUH".....
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As much as I b*tch at Dominion Power, they keep the lights on (most of the time) and they never get thanked when we have a storm and the power stays on, just gritching when we have a power outage. Some jobs are just thankless (but shouldn't be).