These journeymen share their strategies for navigating the path from the field to the boardroom and beyond. Lineworkers often spend their entire careers in the field, powering their communities and restoring electricity following severe storms. Some journeymen,...
People along the Florida Panhandle, Big Bend region and much of the eastern Gulf coast need to complete preparations for hurricane impacts by Wednesday night before hazardous conditions arrive on Thursday. An evolving storm in the western Caribbean is expected to...
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Duke Energy’s year-round grid-strengthening work and advanced technology help keep Florida communities resilient and better protected against disasters such as hurricanes. “Regardless of when and where the next storm strikes,” said Melissa...
Over the last four decades, lineworkers and their families have come together to celebrate the line trade at the International Lineman’s Rodeo. If lineworkers could snag a time machine, they could set it to September 1984 at the Manhattan Vocational Technical College...
Flooding rainfall, damaging winds and tornadoes will continue as former Category 2 Hurricane Francine moves northward over the southern United States into Friday. Hurricane Francine made landfall in southern Louisiana in the Parish of Terrebonne, about 30 miles...
Francine may gain some additional strength as it spins northeastward over the Gulf of Mexico with its sights set on blasting ashore in Louisiana with a significant risk to lives and property from flooding and high winds. An area under AccuWeather meteorologists’...