Hurricane Earl

[rat31465]

My job as a Transporter keeps me busy running the roads all over the State of Missouri.  Yesterday I made a trip from Carthage which is in the Southwest corner of the State, up to Farmington, which is in the North Eastern part of the State. 
Overall I drove a little more thany 660 miles, with most of it being on I-44 yesterday and I noticed that there was a steady stream of Electrical Line Utility trucks and crews heading East bound.   I quit counting the trucks when I reached 140. 
They were traveling in groups of three or more and many of them pulled trailers loaded down with poles....I assume these trucks and crews are heading east towards the coast being staged for the arrival of Hurricane Earl.
If you live in the path of this storm then you have all my best wishes for your safety...

[MikeBjerum]

Electric utility repair has become a huge business.  For decades water, sewer and storm water have been contracted out.  In recent years many private companies have been formed to repair and replace electrical infrastructures.  Many communities no longer do their own large project, and some don't even do their own planned maintenance replacement.  Our community can make one phone call and have a fleet of six trucks with crews and equipment here within 48 hours.  The good thing with this is that when a storm hits you can have hundreds if not thousands of crews on site in short order without deserting the needs of the rest of the nation.

[DaverZ]

it was the same when hurricane charlie ripped through here.

[tombogan03884]

Won't do much good if the roads are blocked by down tree's and wires .

[r_w]

Won't do much good if the roads are blocked by down tree's and wires .

Which is probably why I saw convoys of tree trimmers, log skidders, and US Forest Service fire/EMS vehicles.

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[jaybet]

Just an FYI guys...looks like the Carolinas are going to get a piece of Earl and I hope it's not too bad. I don't know what the MSM is telling everyone but I suspect they're making it a huge emergency before it really is (as in slow news week). My sister just called me from San Diego wondering if we were getting washed away here in NJ. I told her, no, the sun's out and the cicadas are screaming and it's supposed to rain tomorrow.

These storms are never good for someone, but the media has to stop turning everything into a circus before the fact.

[fightingquaker13]

Just an FYI guys...looks like the Carolinas are going to get a piece of Earl and I hope it's not too bad. I don't know what the MSM is telling everyone but I suspect they're making it a huge emergency before it really is (as in slow news week). My sister just called me from San Diego wondering if we were getting washed away here in NJ. I told her, no, the sun's out and the cicadas are screaming and it's supposed to rain tomorrow.

These storms are never good for someone, but the media has to stop turning everything into a circus before the fact.

They don't suck for Wally World and Lowe's. Maybe the hype is an advertising scheme, we guarantee x hours of wall to wall coverage for any storm within a thousand miles?
FQ13

[twyacht]

I wonder if those rich residents on Cape Cod, will be needing FEMA help,,all those rich Yankees an all,......
 
Wonder if Sen. John Kerry, (he served in Vietnam ya' know) moved his fancy new blow boat,.....

[MikeBjerum]

Won't do much good if the roads are blocked by down tree's and wires .

That is what they are there for!

They just start there and work their way through.

[Timothy]

I lived in tornado alley, a little blow from Earl ain't no thing.....I'm two miles from the coast now and I ain't going anywhere...I can accept mother nature in all her glory...