My nephew in North Carolina just got his power back!

[Siwsan]

I'm so relieved. This is still a big mess in western North Carolina but at least a bit of normalcy has returned to his life.

[Lovie777]

1. K & R....................

[Srkdqltr]

2. My cousin near Ashville got hers back too. Not too bad. Although the city is a mess.

[NewHendoLib]

3. Ours came back 30 min ago!!!

[senseandsensibility]

6. Yay!

Hope you're doing well!

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Is he near Penrose?

[Siwsan]

7. Not sure

He's on Foxhall in Mills River. He said almost everyone else in Mills River got reconnected earlier.

[central scrutinizer]

5. My sister in Hendersonville

Got her power back on Wednesday. They had been given an estimate of Friday

[malaise]

8. Rec

Good

[Phoenix61]

9. It's amazing how fast those folks move.

FEMA rocks when to comes to coordinating the supplies and teams coming in from all over.

[soandso]

11. It's coordinated by public utility companies

who, I'm sure, coordinate with FEMA, state and local officials. It's pretty interesting.

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More than 1,200 public power utilities are part of a mutual aid community. With mutual aid, utilities come together before a storm ever happens to agree to share crews and equipment when needed. In the event of a storm, crews from around the region, or all over the country offer assistance to the utility or utilities affected to help them restore damaged parts of the system. For larger events that can be forecast, assisting crews are positioned on the outskirts of the storm to go in and help restore power as soon as it is safe to do so.

https://www.publicpower.org/blog/helping-public-power-utilities-prepare-worst

[Gore1FL]

10. When I first read the thread title...

My first thought was "super-power." I was kind of hoping it meant he could fly, bend spoons with mind, and x-ray luggage at the airport with his eyes.

I am a 58-year-old child.

I'm glad he has electricity, though!

[ms liberty]

12. Aweaome news. As they get our counties back up, they're moving west and even more are getting up there

I'm in one of the counties on the eastern line of the declared disaster area. I had no power from Friday to Tuesday afternoon. Ours was allegedly repaired by Canadian linemen, but I've seen about six different power company logos in my county. Today I was over in Hickory where they're staging a lot of the people and supplies for our area and to go west to Asheville. It is crawling with activity that is obviously disaster related. National Guard trucks, power trucks of all sizes, cops and emergency response people of all sorts and logos. This was on I-40 and also on the main drag for the mall, shopping, hotels, etc , Hwy 64.
I talked to a couple of guys that looked like linemen or firefighters at Wally World and their jackets were emblazoned with FEMA - ORANGE COUNTY CALIFORNIA.