A Lineman’s View ~ Looking for Trouble

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 stream must have been created from the flood this year. As nice as it would be to be able to drive to all these poles, it gives me the opportunity to take a look around and soak up some nature. As we make our way from the circuit breaker to the end of the line looking for what caused the trouble we found it at the very end... of course. As usual, one of those stupid cotton wood trees broke and tore down the line. We have been pushing them to relocate this section of line... it must be in the works....

I’m not in the air but the sometimes us Lineman are grounded....