[Superman]

My profession has to do with public work and labor relations. When Western Washington had the "Innagural Day Storm" back in the early '90's (80+ mph winds) and hundreds of thousands were without power, a call went out to neighboring states and the line crews came. Yup, we were grateful and we needed them. However.....

.....the other side of the story is that our PUD's and power companies guaranteed those workers double-time pay 24 hours per day for three weeks or whenever they were no longer needed, which ever came last. Linemen make pretty good money at the straight time rate. Just sayin'.......