and they are laid off concrete finishers in vermont and they are everywhere. this book is about them. it is for them. it happened to be in my backyard, the microcosm, the capsule that i tried to tell. and they don t have any champions. they are as close to forgotten as anybody i know. host: what did the mill closing due to their sense of self? they take so much pride in building and working with their hands what did the mill closing due to them? guest: one fellow went to make cat food. other guys had trouble finding work at all. a lot of the older folks retired. they did not build around going woe is me. they cut firewood. they found a way to make a living. they were very capable. there is a difference in getting by and making a living. they re getting by. a lot of them a lot of land in jobs that paid the bills just barely and give them insurance which is the key to everything. but if you ask them if they are still cotton mill workers that hard work millworkers they wil
the powerlines, power crews, back out on the streets. here s a look at what they need to try to handle. they is nearly 72,000 outannals tonight. for and they had more than 20,000. mostly in these counties. the southern maryland electric cooperative has had 361 customers with the power out mostly in st. maries county, power out in maryland and virginia, and dominion, working on more than 5700 folks with the lights out in northern virginia. and the appalachian power, 165 people in the dark and into the charleston area. now, if you want to keep tabs on this for your friends and your family and the neighbors that do not have power right now, obviously, they can t watch tv, well, you can log onto wusa9.com. check the links to all the different power companies. and joining us now by phone, with more on the outages and the efforts to restore them. clay anderson, once again, thank you so much for joining us for our viewers just tuning in here at 7:00. give us an idea of where pepco