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
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 individual neighborhoods that
different electric utility companies that have reported power outages. in the aggregate, i m going to say it s well over 100,000 homes or businesses that have been without power. now, they re all working very hard today to try to restore it. obviously, some will be much longer than others getting particularly in some rural areas, where they re hard to get to. but over 100,000 outages were at the peak. and i understand that some teams, rescue teams are going house to house there, in order to find out if people are trapped, possibly. can you give us anymore insight on how that it progressing? yeah, we had about 12 people in one community where four of the deaths occurred that were unaccounted for this morning. but they have subsequently been located. so we don t have at last report, there are no other unaccounted for individuals located in that tornadic area. but we just discovered