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Video: Restoring power from the water – and the sky

June 29, 2017 | Joe Comstock | restoration, T&D, video
transmission restoration


Incredible measures were taken by crews across the OPPD service territory to restore power after the June 16 storm wreaked havoc with utility’s transmission system.

But the transmission restoration work shown on the above video is on an entirely different other level. See the unique measures taken to restore the grid and rebuild a transmission structure near the Platte River.

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About Joe Comstock

Joe Comstock, after 16 years of working as a designer, art director, illustrator and sculptor in Los Angeles, moved back to Omaha and is currently a content generalist at OPPD. Skilled in all things creative, he can make the mundane - magical, the trite - tantalizing and the difficult – digestible. Along with being a lover of alliteration, he has a keen interest in golf, paintball, hunting and not doing yard work. His California wife moved back with him and loves everything but the winters. His two children are both stand-up comedians.

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