Don’t know about the big power companies, but the EMCs are self funded on these co-op emergency trips. Thats what the newsletter from my EMC said back during Super Storm Sandy. We paid to send them help and the SOBs turned them away because they were non-union. Our guys were there with their tools and trucks, ready to help, they turned around and came home.
We have crews already in S Fla today.
I remember the flap about them turning away non-union help - some folks are just too stupid to help.