[ansel12]

I have always respected those guys.

I’m a contractor, and have interacted with those guys in different states and observed them, not a lot, but a little more than average, and I don’t have any negative anecdotes or impressions, they always struck me as troopers, neither rain nor sleet, the mission must be completed, the mission is everything, these people need me, type of guys.

[sarasmom]

My former husband was an electrical lineman.
I have a tiny bit of inside information regarding the field.

PMIs-Preventive Maintenance Inspections-are both basic and critical in power production and distribution.

Downed power lines will kill people. Everytime. Everywhere.
It's a very, very bad thing when power substations explode.