Been a LONG week, many hours of work. Thousands of feet of new strand pulled, primaries run, fiber spliced, coax pulled and gawd knows how many new poles set, ALL services restored to those who have a home that can be serviced, roads are cleared for travel....now the long arduous task of clean up for individual home owners begins. I think there were over 1500 linemen working the area at one point, that's a huge effort to get everything done in short order.
I have worked a couple hurricane recoveries and now this tornado and until you have gone through this you really can't comprehend even with all the coverage on tv the damage and devastation in peoples lives. Just trying to get around, get basic supplies like food and water can be a HUGE task.
I can't tell you how many people I have talked to this week that had small local insurance companies that appear to have left customers holding the bag...sad
I'm very happy to say that our community pulled together and had so many volunteers that a great many had to be turned away. I can't even count the times I was approached by local churches, CERT and countless others bringing us lunch and dinner, fruit, water and just a smiling face as we worked this week, it was just totally awesome to see it!
