Six area linemen en route to Louisiana

Chuck Tuttle, Co-Mo Electric Cooperative operations manager, gives a job briefing to the crews leaving Thursday for Louisiana to help in restoration efforts after Hurricane Isaac. In the background is June Nivens, assistant manager.

Chuck Tuttle, Co-Mo Electric Cooperative operations manager, gives a job briefing to the crews leaving Thursday for Louisiana to help in restoration efforts after Hurricane Isaac. In the background is June Nivens, assistant manager.

The News Tribune

Friday, August 31, 2012

Six Co-Mo Electric Cooperative linemen were sent to Louisiana on Thursday for restoration work in the wake of Hurricane Isaac.

Three supply-loaded trucks were sent to help bring power back to the nearly 56,000 members of Dixie Electric Membership Corporation, whose electricity was knocked out from torrential rains and hurricane-force winds this week.

Ken Johnson, Co-Mo’s CEO and general manager, assured Co-Mo members the cooperative will maintain sufficient staff at both of its offices to handle any issues that could happen here this weekend from the remnants of the hurricane.

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