[Scan-DC] Pike Electric of Mt. Airy NC Utility Crew

[b_thom@juno.com]

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:32:30 -0400 john wilson <jwilson9@erols.com>
writes:
>    Pike Electric also is working in Prince George, Co., Va.  They are 
> doing a
> great job here.  

Yesterday evening, I talked to one of the neighbors whose power had been
restored that afternoon. He and his wife had driven to Richmond to assist
her sister, whose house on the west end of Richmond had experienced
flooding. I told him that Pike Electric deserved the credit for the
resumption of power. He then commented that he had seen a large number of
utility trucks from Pike Electric and Michigan's Consumers Energy on
I-95. "Like an Army convoy, only bigger," was his comment.

Consumers Energy is owned by the holding company CMS, which according to
the "Motley Fool" is headquartered in Dearborn MI. I will leave the
Gullfoss search to someone else.

Alexandria may at this time be all back on the grid. Monday night, I
oberved while walking around that the odd-numbered addresses on Summers
Drive and the even-numbered addresses on Glendale Street between Russell
Road and Junior Street were without power. These houses are on the same
block. In that neighborhood, power lines are not on the street. Instead,
they go through easements in back yards. This practice occurs in
Alexandria's Rosemont neighborhood too.

Last night, power was still out in the 2300 block of Leslie Avenue in the
Del Ray neighborhood, where a tree had fallen on a line. The 2300 block
of Valley Drive, which is nowhere near the 2300 block of Leslie Avenue,
had its power restored recently. It too was the victim of a fallen tree.