My sister who lives in Sugarland, TX lost power when Beryl passed over them. According to their emergency preparedness officials 89% of their county is without power.

This morning I headed east across I-10 in Louisiana towards Mississippi for my scheduled run. Three or four times I counted the number of power company trucks over a 5 mile stretch to get an idea of how many I saw. It came out to 5.3 per mile over a stretch of 140 miles. I saw trucks coming from Mississippi. Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

I called a co-worker who was making a return trip east from Beaumont, TX on I-10. He said he was seeing 4-6 trucks EVERY mile also headed west on I-10 towards the Houston area.

It s a great day to see all those people headed that way to get power restored as soon as possible.

It is an awesome sight. =d> =d> =d>

During the big Texas freeze a few years ago we had to drive down to Kingsville to help our younger son and his wife move to Missouri. We liked the I-20 route with a stop in Monroe, LA. We saw hundreds of line trucks from all over the South East US. It was late when we got to Monroe, our room wasn't available, another story, and every hotel was full of unity repairmen. I ended driving through the night passing even more utility trucks.

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I lived in Sugar Land before our recent move to Florida. From what I can figure out around 80% of the county is without power. Houston proper about 50% are without power.

For things like hurricanes, utilities have agreements in place with other utilities to lend crews for disasters. They are already staged and ready to roll before the storm even made landfall. The local crews do damage assessment while waiting for the reinforcements. Ice storms and freezes are a bit more of a scramble.

Yep. Two friends of mine both recently retired from The Entergy as a linemen. It was a common occurrence that during hurricane season they were going to get huge amounts of overtime.

Still though it was a hell of a thing to basically have an average of 5 trucks per mile for over 300 miles headed towards Texas to help out.

That’s only coming in from the east. I suppose there are equal amounts coming in from the north and again from the west.

Good to hear that people in the area are getting the help that they need.