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Watch on 3Speak---I was finishing up changing all the old induction lights to LEDs in the shop yard, when I caught some lightning off in the distance. I better hurry up and get out of the air before that

Watch on 3Speak---This view brightened up the our spirits a bit. Frigid single digit temps weren’t the way we wanted to spend Christmas Eve morning. A drunk driver hit a pole at approximately 12:30am.

A Lineman’s View The view from a Lineman’s perspective can turn from beautiful to nasty in a hurry #linelife #Linemansview #electricity #poorowls

A Lineman’s View The sun finally came out and warmed things up a bit. So I got up as high as I could in my bucket and took a photo of the Columbia River in Wallula, WA.

It’s as high as my little 45 foot bucket would take me. I wish is wasn’t hazy because you could see a heck of a lot farther. There are some fires starting south of my area and I hope they don’t make their

As we were changing out these transformers that got hit by lighting earlier in the morning, I took a moment to have a look around. This bank of transformers powers a 500hp pump which helps to water the

A Saturday morning outage call took me to the Tucannon River in Dayton, WA. No, that little stream of water in front of me isn’t the river. It is back in the tree line at the base of the hills. This little

I tell you what!?! This is the second time we have had a garage truck come bombing down the hill with the rear lift gate open and tear down the secondary wire. The last time the garbage truck driver completely

Received a couple outage calls about flickering lights and pumps not working. Sounds like we have a phase that is open somewhere. The location... the middle of nowhere. It’s over an hour drive north of

... pump station. The owners are totally rebuilding it. They have quite the hole dug and they were setting some pretty massive pipes in two really deep holes that had amazingly clean water just flowing

... a little Linework!! After the recent flood we had it was time to make some changes to the location of the Powerlines along the river. With little to no access the excavator is the way to go. While