Posted on 09/02/2019 10:57:55 AM PDT by Libloather
MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) – Power crews are rolling into Daytona International Speedway ahead of Hurricane Dorian.
Those crews, made up of 18,000 people from 34 states and Canada, are staging getting ready to restore power after this storm.
“This is one of the processing centers where they come in, they get their assignments they go through a safety training and then we preposition them in 20 staging sites that we’ve established in the east coast of Florida. What that does is that it puts us in the position so that they are able to hit the ground running and they are able to restore power to our customers as soon as the storm passes,” said Florida Power and Light spokesman Dave McDermitt.
**SNIP**
After the storm they do have an order of priority when it comes to power restoration. It starts with health care facilities, like hospitals, and public safety facilities and then they move on to the residential neighborhoods.
(Excerpt) Read more at miami.cbslocal.com ...
This stall is killing the Northern Bahamas, but may turn out to be the factor that keeps Dorian offshore from FL.
(The longer the stall, the more time for the forces to nudge Dorian further East to come into play.)
Somehow I don’t think ol’ Rex has ever been through a really, really serious weather disaster...
That’s pretty much the way the ball bounces in emergencies.
Yep - those power folks were some of the biggest heroes by getting electric service back in an amazingly short period...
Yep, Step Son is a line crew boss down in FL, he sent his family north, and he stayed to do repairs.
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