Thanks Freud
This one wasn't that bad, Irene and Sandy were just awful!
When I started working here it was the end of Sandy and the trucks were falling apart. got a call 4am on presidents day from a friend, he asked if I wanted to work on trucks, I was currently working at a golf coarse, I said NO!........however he was a good negotiator and I started that day.
Back then we had 30 crews working 7 days a week 16hrs a day, we did that from October 30th till mid April. during that time the crews only got 3 days off. x-mas day, turkey day, and new years day. in the beginning they lived in hotels with no power or heat, ate box lunches and dealt with the angry people. while there families dealt with the same stuff at home alone.
there are so many stories no one will ever hear of the generosity and heroism. like when the pallet of box lunches had extra, some crews would seek out the homeless and give them out. I think they gave away about 200+ sweatshirts, right off there backs to people that lost everything. I could go on and on.
well were off storm and I should be home about 7pm tonight, I will check on those sprockets then.