Two weeks after Hurricane Milton viciously made landfall on the Florida coast, Oklahoma linemen are returning home.
Public Service Company of Oklahoma sent crews down for both hurricanes, to lend a hand in the aftermath.
HURRICANE RELIEF: PSO crews are heading to Florida to help
Cameron Highfill was among them.
“First thing I did, I looked on there and checked the outages, and it was like three and a half million… and I was like, ‘Awh man, we’re going to be down here a couple weeks,'” Highfill said.
He just got back home after 11 days of nonstop calls, working to get the power back on for the storm-battered communities.
“I didn’t know what we were going to see,” the apprentice lineman said. “I’d seen some videos of the Florida governor saying like ‘evacuate now.’ I think he said ‘or you’ll die,’ like some extreme like that. I was like are we going to see some bodies or something? Like I didn’t know, rolling down there what we were going to see.”
This crew set up in Alabama the night before landfall before moving in to pick up the downed powerlines.