Hurricane Harvey, for example, destroyed 5,000 wooden utility poles and left 250,000+ people powerless for numerous days in August 2017, inflicting a record-setting $125 billion in damage. One month ...
PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (WTAP) - A 20-year-old is dead after hitting a telephone pole. Crews responded to an accident on the 2400 block of Gihon Road with one entrapment. The call came in at 8:09 a.m. this ...
“The feedback I get is that the crews don’t ever want us to go back to wood poles,” he said. Steel poles are pre-drilled to the utility’s specifications by the manufacturer so there is little drilling ...