-=> 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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