Then there are the utilities themselves, stretching to harden the systems we all so depend on, make long outages shorter, and make outages of any duration, ultimately, a scarce occurrence - rather than the norm after the fiercest of storms, fires, and floods. There are additionally the engineers constantly innovating, honing the equipment and processes, to cut five-day outages down to four days, down to three days, down to, well… There are years of planning and drills, so that when the battle is joined, the crews work as if they were choreographed for the stage. Recounted here are the sacrifices of the heroes’ families left behind to cope alone, and the essential efforts behind the scenes to ensure the heroes are safe, well-fed, and have a clean bed for a precious few hours. These are the chapters that are rarely written, and the stories rarely told. This book is for all of us, but for them especially. But one of the best reasons is this – the dedication, the courage, the sheer persistence of the heroes of storm recovery. The electric utility industry is a great one for several reasons. They come, so we can plug back into our lives. They come here, from their hometowns to ours, to reassemble what’s been so thoroughly dissembled by the weather’s tantrum. That’s when our heroes of the storms show up, from around here, and from around the state.
How are we actually going to get through this, however long this is? Now anybody can see that the power isn’t coming back anytime soon. After a while, once the winds die down, the devastation is apparent.
It all starts with a path of destruction. What can you do? Nature’s fury takes on the constructions of man. When the storms come, and our electricity shuts off, it sometimes seems like a perfectly normal progression. Steve Mitnick and Rachel Moore tell inspiring stories of utility industry heroes who bring up our power when it is brought down by nature or man.
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