Posted: 10/6/2016 11:28:00 PM EDT
| There are still a lot of amazingly good people in this world! I live in North Mississippi. I just saw a YUGE convoy of electric bucket trucks heading southeast on 78 / i22 looked like at least 50~60 trucks and maybe more in front of them. It's really amazing how this country CAN pull together in time of need. God Bless America and pray for the people along the Eastern seaboard! |
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There are still a lot of amazingly good people in this world! I live in North Mississippi. I just saw a YUGE convoy of electric bucket trucks heading southeast on 78 / i22 looked like at least 50~60 trucks and maybe more in front of them. It's really amazing how this country CAN pull together in time of need. God Bless America and pray for the people along the Eastern seaboard! Amen to that! Sometimes you see things and realize not all humanity is lost. |
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Yup. State of emergency = big federal $$$ thrown around and union power companies surely get favor. They ain't heading there on their own dime or out of the goodness of their heart.... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Let us hope they are still working on election day so they cannot vote for HRC and Obama's failed legacy. |
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There are still a lot of amazingly good people in this world! I live in North Mississippi. I just saw a YUGE convoy of electric bucket trucks heading southeast on 78 / i22 looked like at least 50~60 trucks and maybe more in front of them. It's really amazing how this country CAN pull together in time of need. God Bless America and pray for the people along the Eastern seaboard! Also the fact that those operators will be making double time pay for the duration and many (some) are paid 24 hour time. All of it gets billed to the state and the tax payers get to shoulder the cost. But it's nice that there are hard working people willing to go to a disaster zone when they don't really need to. 
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| LOL, it isn't as much about "pulling together" as it is the $$$$$. The electrical workers make big bucks on storm duty. Travel time pay, over time pay, weekend pay, extra long shifts...ect. The electrical workers do pull together and do whatever it takes to get the power back on...but only because it pays so well. |
| May be bigly money, but hell they EARN their pay going into miserbly horrible messes and getting the infrastructure all back up. Damn all y'all are so cynical. I know they are getting paid well. Hell just get all the BLM people to come together and get your power back on. |
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Quoted: May be bigly money, but hell they EARN their pay going into miserbly horrible messes and getting the infrastructure all back up. Damn all y'all are so cynical. I know they are getting paid well. Hell just get all the BLM people to come together and get your power back on. Facts now make someone cynical? Yes they are paid well and they do it for the money. Do you think they are working 16+ hours a day, in bad weather, in bad parts of town, and working on something that can kill them out the of the goodness of their heart? Nope. Sure they love their job but if the money wasn't there then they wouldn't be there. Detroit Edison puts regular employees on storm duty watching down power lines. You rope of the scene, call in what it looks like, and then you sit there watching to make sure no idiot walks or drives into the power line. You sit there until relieved or the line is fixed. Over time pay for sitting in your car. It is a love hate relationship because your life gets put on hold but that nice fat overtime check makes up for it. |
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I'm the IT monkey for a company that has sent everything short of the kitchen sink to the east coast
Yeah those guys make bank on storms Of course it can also kill you very very easily can it kill you consider the fact that they get deaded on a somewhat frighteningly regular basis on normal work conditions now take it to account 16+ hour days and a disaster zone You thing a guy at hour 16 is as mental competent as a guy working an 8 hour shift ? AC is bad bad ju ju We need it and it's on those guys lives that it's turned back on after a storm Yeah they get paid well If anyone should they should |
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You fucking right we get paid.Half of the men of arfcom probably couldn't even hold a 30ft hot stick straight up, much less hit a 3/4" ring and close/open a switch. <a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/user/eagle_192/media/3chh7XdUy1rKj_e8ObGcs2aCiwXPYjlzub8lwC6ZouA_zpszyzcfobp.png.html" target="_blank">http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii181/eagle_192/3chh7XdUy1rKj_e8ObGcs2aCiwXPYjlzub8lwC6ZouA_zpszyzcfobp.png</a> nope |
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Quoted: You fucking right we get paid.Half of the men of arfcom probably couldn't even hold a 30ft hot stick straight up, much less hit a 3/4" ring and close/open a switch. http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii181/eagle_192/3chh7XdUy1rKj_e8ObGcs2aCiwXPYjlzub8lwC6ZouA_zpszyzcfobp.png |
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Quoted: I see electric company trucks on I-75 all the time when a storm comes near to shore. My favorite people are the electric company folk! |
| In 2012 as Hurricane Sandy was approaching NJ I was driving from NJ to GA. I was the only one on the road for what seemed like hours as I headed south. The north bound lanes had a constant train of electric trucks/other service trucks headed north. It was pretty cool to see. It stretched for dozens of miles. |
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Yep sorry to burst your humanity bubble but a storm like this could make a line company's decade. Quoted:
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Probably getting double time Yep sorry to burst your humanity bubble but a storm like this could make a line company's decade. You said it. My cousin is a lineman, and worked an ice storm in the northeast I think. 16 hour days working his ass off, but he grossed well over $10k. |
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Quoted: nope Quoted: Quoted: You fucking right we get paid.Half of the men of arfcom probably couldn't even hold a 30ft hot stick straight up, much less hit a 3/4" ring and close/open a switch. <a href="http://s264.photobucket.com/user/eagle_192/media/3chh7XdUy1rKj_e8ObGcs2aCiwXPYjlzub8lwC6ZouA_zpszyzcfobp.png.html" target="_blank">http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii181/eagle_192/3chh7XdUy1rKj_e8ObGcs2aCiwXPYjlzub8lwC6ZouA_zpszyzcfobp.png</a> nope |
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We passed a few convoys of bucket trucks from Indiana and Ohio headed south on 75 yesterday near Macon. There was a 1/3 mile back up on the interstate of them getting off at the Lake City exit. I guess they are staging there.
I'm glad their here, we're gonna need them. I hope they all make bank. |
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Facts now make someone cynical? Yes they are paid well and they do it for the money. Do you think they are working 16+ hours a day, in bad weather, in bad parts of town, and working on something that can kill them out the of the goodness of their heart? Nope. Sure they love their job but if the money wasn't there then they wouldn't be there. Detroit Edison puts regular employees on storm duty watching down power lines. You rope of the scene, call in what it looks like, and then you sit there watching to make sure no idiot walks or drives into the power line. You sit there until relieved or the line is fixed. Over time pay for sitting in your car. It is a love hate relationship because your life gets put on hold but that nice fat overtime check makes up for it. Quoted:
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May be bigly money, but hell they EARN their pay going into miserbly horrible messes and getting the infrastructure all back up. Damn all y'all are so cynical. I know they are getting paid well. Hell just get all the BLM people to come together and get your power back on. Facts now make someone cynical? Yes they are paid well and they do it for the money. Do you think they are working 16+ hours a day, in bad weather, in bad parts of town, and working on something that can kill them out the of the goodness of their heart? Nope. Sure they love their job but if the money wasn't there then they wouldn't be there. Detroit Edison puts regular employees on storm duty watching down power lines. You rope of the scene, call in what it looks like, and then you sit there watching to make sure no idiot walks or drives into the power line. You sit there until relieved or the line is fixed. Over time pay for sitting in your car. It is a love hate relationship because your life gets put on hold but that nice fat overtime check makes up for it. I've done that duty, back before smartphones. Good thing I always had books in my car. 
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Yup. State of emergency = big federal $$$ thrown around and union power companies surely get favor. They ain't heading there on their own dime or out of the goodness of their heart.... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile There isn't any fookin federal money for linemen or union power companies [what a laugh THAT is, what union owns a power company?]. Jeez, don't talk of what you know nothing about. It's called reciprocity between utility companies, been that way for a LONG time. Companies will send their crews to areas with severe damage and in return, those companies will do the same thing when it happens to the other company. The majority of ARFcom would be terrified to do that work and would turn into piss dripping nancy's. Yes they get paid well, they also die early, make a cops life in the ghetto look like a ticket taker ar the teacup ride at Disney, and end up with work related physical issues. Not as bad as it used to be with the advent of modern long extension bucket trucks, climbing, working aloft locked in, and cutouts still happen but not like they used to. [nothing more fun then forearms full of creosote splinters.] |
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Lol, arfcom cynicism at its finest You say cynicism like it's a bad thing. Inmates are running the asylum but some people are just bursting with positivity regardless...they are fun to throw darts at...
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Yup. State of emergency = big federal $$$ thrown around and union power companies surely get favor. They ain't heading there on their own dime or out of the goodness of their heart.... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile I don't think anyone cares if they are profiting from it. That's what makes capitalism work! Just the fact that they are there is reassuring. In a "third world" country I doubt you'd see this kind of response because they simply don't have the resources. We have the resources and it is a beautiful thing. |
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Probably getting double time During hurricane Irene JCP&L First Energy sent crews from Ohio, Pennsylvania and a few other states to help out those in NJ that lost power. Most areas; myself included were still out of power for 12-14 days. They didn't just volunteer to go help out. They were told to go help out by their employer. They are getting paid a lot to be there. |
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Lol, arfcom cynicism at its finest You definitely have a point. It's still amazing to see people work hard given how many people out there are allergic to work. They would rather sit on their ass all day getting a modest SSDI gov't check than work hard and make a lot more money. It's also not like the line workers created the storm in the first place. Glad to see there is some vestige of work ethic left in America. |
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May be bigly money, but hell they EARN their pay going into miserbly horrible messes and getting the infrastructure all back up. Damn all y'all are so cynical. I know they are getting paid well. Hell just get all the BLM people to come together and get your power back on. If you relied on the entitled piece of shit BLM people to get your electricity back up, you'd be living in the Stone Age before too long. |
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I guarandamntee you none of them will be turned away like they were in jersey after tropical depression sandy. Didn't they get turned away because they fucked up royally during Irene? I remember seeing a bunch of First Energy JCP&L guys in an Applebee's drinking alcoholic beverages after Irene when they should've been out restoring power. |
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Probably getting double time Yep sorry to burst your humanity bubble but a storm like this could make a line company's decade. Which is absolutely fine! We let the Liberal Progressives shame us into believing that working for PROFIT was somehow a bad thing. The fact that a company prospers and employees can support their families doesn't make the effort any less commendable. Otherwise we are Haiti - sitting on our asses waiting in vain for the .gov to do something for us while pointing guns at our children. |