{"id":1237772,"date":"2023-06-23T01:46:42","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1237772"},"modified":"2023-06-25T15:43:15","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T20:43:15","slug":"linemen-are-still-working-through-repairs-in-east-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1237772","title":{"rendered":"Linemen are still working through repairs in East Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/2023-06-23_014405-150x124.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"124\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1237773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/2023-06-23_014405-150x124.jpg 150w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/2023-06-23_014405.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Some East Texans have been without electricity for almost a week now. Power companies are still working through the extensive recovery process throughout several counties in East Texas. Adding that this recovery process, which started one week ago, has been extensive and widespread. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most of the time you know you can go to one location and find 10-20 poles here we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been taken to 10-20 locations and find one pole. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been very widespread,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Skeen. SWEPCO\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sister companies came out from Indiana, Michigan and Ohio. Skeen estimated that there are still about 1,000 personnel on the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Our news partner KETK spoke with Jimmy Skeen, a SWEPCO Base Camp Manager: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I tell people it took years to build the system, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s destroyed in a matter of minutes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d He added that the linemen are grateful for the support and hospitality they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve received from East Texans. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve encountered has really been just super, I mean we have had the communities reach out wanting to know what they can do for us, which is amazing,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Skeen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Some East Texans have been without electricity for almost a week now. Power companies are still working through the extensive recovery process throughout several counties in East Texas. Adding that this recovery process, which started one week ago, has been extensive and widespread. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most of the time you know you can go to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1237772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Linemen are still working through repairs in East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1237775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/06\/2023-06-23_014405-150x124.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Linemen are still working through repairs in East Texas","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1237772","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 02:33:47","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\/2023-06-23_014405-150x124.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Linemen are still working through repairs in East Texas","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237772","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=1237772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237774,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1237772\/revisions\/1237774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1237775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1237772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1237772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1237772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}