I live in PA where a small tornado came through four counties leaving 400k people without power. It has brought down trees and power lines; imagine that! Tonight the "news" showed pix of an outside power co's that sent crews to help the local utility (PECO) with restoration. It was named Pike and I believe they said it was from N Carolina. I expected to see Nooner or Jake but no luck. It's not surprising they had to bring in outside help because PECO has been getting rid of the more experienced people and either not replacing them or with outside contractors. But not to editorialize but things come around in a circle.
The Philly Inquirer had a pix of a lineman removing the ground clamps from a repair.
Funny but when I was writing this I heard some local cops tell the comm center that the local phone co (Verizon) had a generator that was back feeding to a local convenience store and he wanted PECO notified so nobody got hurt. The dispatcher was quizzing him and his reply was "The situation was explained to me by the Fire Co. and I'm not an electrician and I don't pretend to be. Just tell PECO they have to check it out and to use caution so nobody gets hurt".