Take the stuff out of the aircraft and sneak back to the hootch. You sneak back because you're going to get your ass chewed over the blade strike. If, however, you can postpone it long enough, maybe something worse will happen to someone else which takes the XO's mind off the dinged up blades. Sterling's hootch is the first one we come to and he goes inside but comes right back out and says the power is off. Well, we know the generator is running because we can hear it.
Sterling looks over at the electric pole and sure enough, the knife switch is off.
Since we're pilots and think logically, we know the thing to do is go turn it on. As soon as Sterling turned the switch on there was a terrible racket in the direction of my hootch. It sounded like someone was beating the dickens out of the corrugated roof. Sterling quickly yanked the switch off. There was a loud crash and then some thumps followed by a thud as something hit the ground.