Search 900,000 of the world's best sites . Search The Reflector Suggest a Greenville website. The 1999 storm and subsequent flood taught electrical crews, shelter operators, police and rescue personnel all about worst-case scenarios, officials said. But I won't tell you we're not nervous when an event happens. On the most basic level, preparing for a hurricane means updating employees' telephone numbers and addresses so workers can be reached during emergencies, Ferren said.
Employees know what extra jobs they'll take on.
Electrical crews continue working to install a second substation on MacGregor Downs Road west of Greenville. The station would back up the Mumford Road station that flooded in 1999. That station received power for all of GUC's 50,000-plus customers. However, GUC officials recognize that power failures occur during emergency weather conditions, and quickly pinpointing the areas of greatest loss would help them restore service more promptly. The commission plans to accomplish this by installing an automated response system that will let operators pinpoint locations and use computers to see where the highest concentration of calls are being generated, he said.