{"id":1237325,"date":"2023-06-22T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1237325"},"modified":"2023-06-23T08:56:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T13:56:20","slug":"letourneau-university-houses-over-250-swepco-linemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1237325","title":{"rendered":"LeTourneau University houses over 250 SWEPCO linemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/LeTourneau-University-logo-150x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"123\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1237326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/LeTourneau-University-logo-150x123.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/LeTourneau-University-logo.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201d LeTourneau University opened its doors and dorm rooms for over 250 linemen to rest overnight according to our news partner KETK. Workers would normally stay in hotels, but they are booked up due to local families not having power. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The other option is they sleep in a cot, in a truck or they sleep in a tent. Where else are we going to put them?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Robinson. Afraid of the alternative, SWEPCO turned locally and the timing was perfect in coordination with the university. After their 16-hour shift in the scorching heat, every lineman can rest comfortably.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Because of previous camps all of our spaces were full and so, since the storm happened right around the time then all of those campers left and left us with the availability to have five open dorms in the first place,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Marty Lane, Director of Conference and Event Services at LeTourneau University. This is the first time in Lane\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 15 years at the university to do something like this.<br \/>\nKindergarteners who are at a summer camp on campus left letters of thanks for the linemen\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hard work. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They realize and understand \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHey! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s these workers doing this and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why we have air conditioning,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 so they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re getting it and understanding it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Lane.<\/p>\n<p>SWEPCO said 100 more workers are on their way Wednesday night to continue working on the damaged areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201d LeTourneau University opened its doors and dorm rooms for over 250 linemen to rest overnight according to our news partner KETK. Workers would normally stay in hotels, but they are booked up due to local families not having power. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The other option is they sleep in a cot, in a truck or they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1237325\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LeTourneau University houses over 250 SWEPCO linemen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1237329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/LeTourneau-University-logo-150x123.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"LeTourneau University houses over 250 SWEPCO linemen","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 02:34:10","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/LeTourneau-University-logo-150x123.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"LeTourneau University houses over 250 SWEPCO linemen","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1237325"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237327,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237325\/revisions\/1237327"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}