It is a small price to pay for the isolation and quality of life they hoped to achieve with their move into the country. While customer power is restored, the amount of work left is staggering. United Power has lost over 300 poles and miles of line lie in a tangled mess along roadways. Crews continue to work on making permanent repairs. Cooperatives around the state were heavily damaged, including over 2,600 poles and seven miles of transmission line downed by the storm.
Smaller cooperatives expect to be making repairs for weeks.
In some cases there are miles and miles of lines between customers, and some customers could be without power for weeks. Our office is nearly normal. Phone calls have again returned to questions about late bills and special services. Several dozen tacky notes remain on the map board, a testimony to the weeks of work that remain for our crews. In spite of the dangers, no customers were hurt, and not a single crew member was injured.