Missouri boots are on the ground in hurricane country to help restore power and repair power damages. Nick Henderson, manager of incident response and performance for Ameren Missouri, said more than 300 workers and contractors are in Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia.
“At the height, there was about 4.5 million impacted electrical customers in the southeast that were impacted by Hurricane Helene,” he told Missourinet. “When I was looking, it was down to just over 2 million. Primarily where the Ameren resources are located, there’s still several hundred thousands of customers out.”
Henderson said the workers could be there for one to two weeks, depending on the need.
“We’ve received that type of assistance in the past through our mutual assistance group, so it’s kind of a way to return that favor, spread goodwill. And also, the line workers love this type of work. I mean, it’s very impactful for them and for our deployment team to go to these communities in a time of need,” he said.
“Just being able to provide them power so that they can have refrigerated food, or air conditioning, or things like that, makes a huge difference for our linemen, and they really, really appreciate and enjoy doing it,” he says.
According to Henderson, while the workers are along the East Coast, Ameren is still prepared to handle power problems that comes up in Missouri.
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