Stéphan Perreault and his team have been helping restore power in North Carolina since Hurricane Helene hit in late September, and they don’t expect to be heading home any time soon.
They are some of the hundreds—possibly thousands—of Canadian line workers who have been called into service to help rebuild power grids after Helene and now Hurricane Milton have left millions of Americans in the dark.
Perreault says the line workers have witnessed scenes of devastation from Helene while operating 16 hours per day in challenging conditions that include washed out roads and power grids wiped out by wind and flooding….