during these major storms and really get either to the verge of a major blackout or actually a real blackout. >> and then let's assume there was a problem, say a significant problem. why does it take so long to get the lines back up and running? i mean, if we know what's there and we know -- why does it take so long? >> the electric utility companies staff their line crews for normal circumstances. when you have a big storm that comes through, you may have thousands of locations that are without power, and so they don't have enough staff. typically there is mutual assistance agreements where they bring if line crews from neighboring states. during hurricane sandy, 67,000 line crews were brought in from all over the country. in some cases they were actually loaded with their bucket trucks onto military transports and flown into the sandy disaster area. when there is a lot of