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GulfCoast66

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5. After Charlie we went 13 days.

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Fri Aug 28, 2020, 04:50 PM

Aug 2020

They had to rebuild starting at the large transmission lines.

We had power teams from all over the Southeast. It was a crew from NC that got our block hooked back up. Would have bought those guys as case of beer if I could have. They all worked almost nonstop and we’re almost all were good union members. And making bank! Deserved every cent they got. That is a hot, hard dangerous job with requires lots of knowledge.

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