Alabama Power Sending Crews To Eastern Seaboard To Assist Utilities
By Gilbert Nicholson
Howling winds up to 60 mph battered the Northeast Monday as nearly 500 Alabama Power employees and contractors were on the way to help along the East Coast in the aftermath of winter storms.
The company sent 218 linemen and 122 support personnel to Philadelphia in anticipation of power outages, said Bobby Hawthorne, Power Delivery’s Distribution Engineering Services manager. More than 160,000 homes and businesses were without power in Pennsylvania by Monday afternoon.
“We’re prepared to be up there two weeks,” Hawthorne said. “But we never know. We could come back tomorrow or be there several days.”
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