[GH85Carrera]

My father-in-law was a lineman. He could scamper up a utility pole like a squirrel. He was on call back when we were just married. A local BIG nitrogen fertilizer plant lost one leg of electricity. They were such a big user they had three separate sub stations, one for each leg of the juice. He asked if I wanted to come watch and I said sure.

He unlocked the gate of the one substation that had an issue. A fuse the size of my leg had exploded and blown pieces 100 feet. The one warning he gave me was unnecessary. "Don't touch anything" so that was easy to follow. He met another guy there that was another "old grey" and they nodded to each other as a greeting and said each other's names. The had a little building inside the plant with a phone and controls. It was air conditioned and it had no electrical meter. The made a call to headquarters and and basically told them who was there, and they they were ready to proceed. He wrote down some authorization codes, and read them back. They proceeded to change some controls settings, when to a cabinet, pulled out a fuse that was just gigantic.

One guy walk out there to replace it and the other was right behind to observe. That took a few minutes, they called back and got more codes, repeated things back, and said they were going to put it on-line. Bang, the power was back and they cleaned up some, nodded to each other again, and left. I bet they did not say 10 words to each other. On the way back home my FIL mentioned that the other guys a good friend for over 30 years. I mentioned they did not chat much. He said we had nothing to chat about, they knew all the stories, and worked together all the time. The wanted to concentrate on not getting hurt or killed. Good plan!