I've been out of pocket for a week - storm damage

frankhardy

I hope no one on these boards suffered any damage from Hurricane Ike. I have been out of pocket for a solid week. I work for the electric company in western KY. We had winds from Hurricane Ike come through Sunday morning or tore up a lot of things. I can't imagine the winds they had in Texas. We have over 30,000 customers on our power system. Sunday morning we had 15,000 out of power. We had to call in linemen from Tennessee in to help us restore power. I worked 96.5 hours this week, with most of it being in the overnight hours. Since I live 30 minutes from our office, I only got a few hours sleep all week. Needless to say - I am pooped!

lawnmowerman

Well, on the bright side, that should make for a nice payday!

Leiascards

In Bowie county Texas alne there were 40000 people without electricty most were restored Thursday, I thin they said there are still a couple of thousand without power. Winds were clocked at 62 MPH here Saturday evening before power went estimates on some gusts were in the 80s to 90s and we are 300 miles from Galveston

SoFLPhillyFan

<< <i>I hope no one on these boards suffered any damage from Hurricane Ike. I have been out of pocket for a solid week. I work for the electric company in western KY. We had winds from Hurricane Ike come through Sunday morning or tore up a lot of things. I can't imagine the winds they had in Texas. We have over 30,000 customers on our power system. Sunday morning we had 15,000 out of power. We had to call in linemen from Tennessee in to help us restore power. I worked 96.5 hours this week, with most of it being in the overnight hours. Since I live 30 minutes from our office, I only got a few hours sleep all week. Needless to say - I am pooped! >>



I feel your pain Shane.

Worked a total of 304 hours in the four weeks of hurricane activity that began with Fay and ended with Ike. I'm in a Federal agency regional ops center that covers eight southeast U.S. states from FL to KY. For what it's worth I'm one of the people who helped fly the several thousand people evacuating from NOLA into Louisville before Gustav. We moved about 12K people from NOLA into our region and responded to the threat of the storms at the same time.

As Matt said though, the paychecks have been great.

Thanks for your work. The power sector never fails to meet the challenge when needed.

rube26105

those storms came thru wv and ohio too shane and blew a bunch of stuff around,not like ike though thankfully,thought the house was gonna blow away from the way it sounded,cat hid under counch for 2 24 hours

PoppaJ

My sister lives in Fairfield Ohio and she's been without electric, due to the remnants of Ike, since last Sunday afternoon around 2pm. Her power is still out; she's safe and stubborn ... won't accept my offer to come visit!

"Here's a clip from her local newspaper describing the situation to date, including 5 deaths:

"The remnants of Hurricane Ike swept through the Midwest Sunday afternoon as a deadly windstorm that lasted several hours, knocked out power to more than a million customers and caused severe damage to homes, trees and property. Wind gusts exceeded 70 mph, according to the National Weather Service. The highest wind gusts occurred in West Chester at 84 mph, equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane.

The heaviest damage occurred roughly along a corridor extending along and just north of the Ohio River through Indiana and Kentucky, and along and just north of the I-71 corridor from Cincinnati to Columbus.

Damage on either side of the corridor was less severe and was mostly limited to large tree branches and a few power lines being blown down, according to the National Weather Service. Three people were killed in Greater Cincinnati and two in Southeast Indiana.

Across Ohio, more than 83 percent of power outages had been fixed, and the number of customers still without electricity stood at 330,631 Friday afternoon, PUCO said. In Kentucky, 126,107 customers were without power Friday.

Duke is making a final push to bring all customers back on its system by midnight Sunday. It added another 450 field personnel, bringing its total number of field people Friday to 2,100, spokesman Steve Brash said."

Our prayers go out to all affected by Ike,

PoppaJ

metalmike

I called Nationwde about my damage on Tues and had a check in hand on Thursday. Hope Everyone effected has the same luck. Mike