I used to go up on 2000 foot towers in the middle of the night to keep the taxi cabs tow trucks,powerline workers etc. communicating on their 2 way radios. It does make one feel good about restoring much needed services to the public. So many people never even realize what gets done behind the scenes. I worked on equipment on a 2000 foot tv tower. There would be twenty or more different companies going up the tower daily. There were about 200 radio systems up there. We even worked for the secret service and the FBI. Sometimes we had to wait 24hours to get a time to work on out stuff.
The number of people working the graveyard shift is daunting. I was a generation station operator and worked with a lot of linemen. I told them they could keep their bucket trucks. They said they weren’t going to mess with 1000 pound/ 1000 degree super heated steam. My kids grew up hearing me lecture them on cold, windy, winter nights about who makes sure the Christmas tree lights come on. Linemen’s hardest work don’t happen on nice, calm summer nights. There’s lots of folks making the world turn while most sleep. Just saying.