Wow, what a couple of weeks. The storm struck on a tuesday me and my crew were sent out to highway 303 toward the war eagle mill. when we arrived there was a small bucket truck already there putting up a line that was down. that crew said they had been out sence 2:00 that morning. for about 8 hours we fought the ice there on 303 untill we were called off to go and look at a feeder comming out of the hindsville substation. 303 was worse off when we left about an hour before dark that it was when we had got there that morning. all day was spend dodging falling trees. when we got to hindsville sub we found about 16 poles of double circuit 3 phase on the ground. no trees on them, the line was in the field, they just fell off because of the weight of the ice. We called the office and reported what we had found, and they said to let it weight untill that morning and to come on it. on the way in we got a call to go swing by the harp hill sub and see what could be done about one of the transmission lines being repaired. it was getting dark at this point. It was dedcided that we needed another truck to come an help us so in the mean time we went up on 412 to help another crew that had the 3 phase off because a swepco transmission structure had fallen over the top of our lines. once that was cleaned up we returned to harp hill and in a little bit the truck we had been waiting on arrived. we connected the transmission line to a 3 ton jack, and wasn't getting any where. about 2 hours into it the boss called us off and the office said we could come it. once again the office called to see if we could look at a line on joise street. when we got there it was a 3 phase angle pole and the anchors had pulled because of the weight of the ice. it was leaning at souch an angle that you could put your arm down the hole it had created on the back side of the pole. at this point it was about midnight, and I know I hadn't warmed up any on the ride from our last job. We connectec the digger truck to the pole with the winch. We pulled the pole back to where it should be with the line hot because we were afraid if we shut it off it wouldn't come back on. and we left. we left the truck on it over night. the boss had us leave it running because it would have never started if left to get that cold. so the truck ran there overnight unlocked because we only have one set of keys just off joice st. And that was just the first day. we worked at the least 18 hours a day for 18 days. Time has started to return to normal now but we are still finding things wrong with the system, poles broke, lines down to cabbins, etc,etc