Storm Stories
STORM!! Flaggers love this word. $$$$ Hours and hours of working under extreme conditions, along with hours of sitting and waiting to go out with a crew, while a crew is repairing, moving, eating, sleeping. Extra clothes, extra food, catnapping when you can. This last big storm in western Washington had over 200,000 PSE customers without power. Many counties were impacted by this outage. Thurston county was hit hard. The train of repair consists of fixing one outage at a time. Mainly, one line at a time, as a homeowner will have a limb or a tree take down a local service line. Day and night we proceed from one location to the next. My crew began out on Delphi Road near where MclaneCreek runs into Mud Bay. Bad corner on which a tree took down a local line, road closed, until the crew gets there and then we begin to flag traffic. This was daylight. Perilous location, crummy weather, but some cool Washington wildlife. Cedar tree f...