Pictures are sobering and reflect the people as well as the damage.
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After having lived through hurricanes Charlie, Jean, and Francis back to back, I can definitely relate to the challenges those folks are facing. Lots of work ahead...

Went Through two hurricanes living in the south as a kid.

My kid (in NOLA) has managed to miss both hurricanes this season. I wonder how long his luck will hold out.

Everbody keep your fingers crossed cause we aint done yet. IIRC the offical huricane season supposidly ends 1st December. Like I said the OFFICAL season. Will have to wait and see what will happen. ................................. drill sgt.

So much damage. My thoughts and prayers are with you folks.

Seems like there has been a lot more rain with Delta vs. Laura. As a result, there's been more flooding.

I worked storm restoration for our area during Laura. Really had no time to post anything for you guys. It was 2.5 weeks straight of 16 hour days (company limit for safety). Yay for salary!

For Laura, there were about 20+ transmission lines down. This was caused either by trees falling onto the line, actual structure damage, etc. Our teams were able to get 15 of those back up in the first few days. Some lines were worse than others. The last line we all tackled had 30 structures damaged.

I'm normally an engineer. For these 2.5 weeks, I was a go-fer. Visited staging areas to get food (breakfast & lunch), water, and ice for the crew to whom I was attached. After that it was making trips to our service centers to get any supplies that were needed, i.e. pole foam, small pole top transformers, etc. Sometimes I was moving ahead to look for entry ways to the next work area. Other days, there was a lot of waiting. If the crew was around long enough, I would go to a staging area to get dinner. That didn't line up too well though. Quitting time was around dark; that was about the same time food was being served at the staging areas. That didn't coordinate too well.

One annoying part in all of this was the love bugs. Laura happened to coincide with the late summer love bug season. Annoying little shits. And there were a lot of them.

Haven't been called out to work Delta yet. The recovery on the transmission side of things doesn't seem to be too bad for this storm. Line assessment should be done today. That got a late start yesterday as the helicopters were not allowed to fly as soon as hoped. Still, we were able to get some stuff back in last night for the transmission side.

The Power Company here does a lot of preplanning. All the hotels are booked for lineman in advance and arrrangements made to bring in thousands from other areas of the country. They frequently stage just outside the area and the trucks fill an entire SuperWalmart parking lot. The secretarial staff is tasked with laundry duties for the lineman. The marketing department in the past have waited tables. It is basically all hands on deck. It is impressive to see the interstate flowing with one truck after another. The National Guard always shows up but are not as organized. They did better last time with female Guardsman who were trained to direct traffic. Traffic lights are generally out for an extended period of time.