First off, if it was a defective meter, the power company owns the meter, and they should have been called out, not some electrician. Secondly, why would it be a problem for the electrician to live with the accident that happened to the girls if he had so many storm calls that he was working them in order of receiving the calls, and someone else sent the girls out to work in danger before he could get out to perform that particular service call?
Are you saying that if you were the electriction you wouldn’t feel any regret for not do that job first?
With the benefit of hindsight, I know I would.