By Matt Nauman –
More than 400 PG&E electric workers and support staff, and more than 300 vehicles, arrived in Georgia Friday afternoon to join the mutual-assistance response to Hurricane Helene. PG&E crews worked on Saturday and Sunday at 60 different work locations throughout the hardest hit areas of Georgia replacing power poles and lines.
Monday, Oct. 7, Georgia Power says that more than 95% of its 1.3 million customers who lost power during Helene have been restored. About 20,000 personnel from Georgia Power and from other utilities across North America continue to make progress with repairs and restoration.
Unfortunately, right on the heels of Hurricane Helene, another massive storm is getting ready to make landfall. Hurricane Milton, which rapidly intensified in the Gulf of Mexico over the weekend and is now a Category 5 hurricane, could be the strongest hurricane to hit the Tampa Bay area in 100 years.
Ahead of that storm, PG&E crews and vehicles are headed to Daytona Beach Monday, on the Atlantic Ocean side of Florida, to be positioned to provide restoration help once it is safe to do so. Once the brunt of the storm passes through Florida, it’s expected that PG&E crews will be dispatched to areas most severely impacted by Milton.
As a result of this move, after supporting Georgia Power over the weekend, the PG&E contingent will now be supporting Florida Power & Light (FPL).
In 2017, PG&E crews deployed to Florida for two weeks to make repairs after Hurricane Irma. Working on both coasts of Florida, PG&E crews safely responded to more than 650 repair jobs, restoring more than 41,000 customers.
“Whether we’re helping customers in Georgia or Florida, our focus is on safety and our dedication to do the job right doesn’t change,” said Incident Management Team 3 Incident Commander Bobby Severson, who is leading the PG&E mutual-assistance deployment.
God Bless the PG&E crews & all the people helping out and keep everyone safe.
Are we to assume that PG&E is doing all this out of the kindness of their heart, goodwill & patriotism, or will there be another rate increase ?
Of course we will pay for it. The wind blows and they charge us extra. They are certainly not a benevolent organization after all the awful thing they have done.
Gotta pay those juicy dividends the Vanguard and Black Rock.
These large power utilities have reciprocal arrangements to assist one and another in time of disaster. Nothing new.
Oh hell yes, you know WE ALL are going to have to pay for that too. So now our rates go up because of Wildfires we had nothing to do with and the same will be true about the hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and all. Don’t we all know we are all RICH as hell out here in Cali?
How about PGE and the Dept of Forestry pay for the wild fires because in a sense they both are responsible. Fire service should also be responsible to keeping land cleared under wires and PGE should also be diligent about that. Cha-Ching.
You all know PUC is being paid off by PGE, getting FAT pockets like all those PGE mucky mucks.
You beat me to it Dr. Jellyfinger… The employees of the company are to be commended for their dedication to their work and willingness to travel from home, but the “Corporation” never saw a OEM grant $ or FEMA copper penny they didn’t want. The Governors of those states better pin their shirts to their shorts if they don’t want to lose the shirts off their backs.
Proposed rate increase to cover out of state PG&E crew costs has passed the CPUC unanimously!
Fact Checked………………..Wrong. Stop spreading lies
@DogDog-Dad
I know, right? How dare “Saynogo” have a sense of humor and make a joke.
Saynogo…there may be some delay… the dollar figure hasn’t been settled yet.
After billion$$$$ lost in CA, in forest and fauna and lives up-ended~~~ Largely due to PG&E’s Corp. lack of maintenance of equipment, their extreme selfishness, their total dedication to their own Exec Stock Options, their protection-money paid to stockholders, and greatly multiplied by their total disrespect of their customers ~~ PG&E CEO Patricia Poppe took home $17-million in the 2023 fiscal year— AFTER her fkn $3-million raise! And all this with the kiss-ass approval of the CPUC that is in place to “Protect the Consumer.”
Is their any question why I’m not alone in my disdain of PG&E? Poppe is just the tip of the ice-berg! Their salary range is public… look it up.
In case you missed it…. help is getting a big welcome from people with little else to be happy about. I couldn’t make out company names: https://x.com/ImMeme0/status/1844376555512004968