9 Quotes by Todd Burns

Usually, it's not on a nice weather day in the middle of the day that the power goes out. It happens in the middle of the night in the snow or the rain, and we have to send a crew out to run the length of the line to find the problem.

With this type of damage, it looks like some houses will be (without power) into the late evening before we can get to them.

I was scheduled to fly out the day before it hit. Most of my stuff is stored down there. It's just crazy.

We will actually energize the project in June. That means we will be connecting it with the rest of the transmission grid.

We are seeing new outages almost as fast as we are getting services restored.

We had anticipated this technology coming, so we didn't do a lot of hiring.

We will have a level of protection for our electrical supply that hasn't existed since the 1970s, which is increasingly more important with a modern lifestyle that is dependent upon electricity.

We just started to see these things within the (past) hour. Our crews haven't had time to get there and find the cause.

You can see the difference in the approach in the new map we just developed.