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Platte Clay Electric Coop’s Jennifer Grossl’s presentation walked the attendees through real-life scenarios demonstrating the coop’s values of reliability and safety. There have been multiple power outages due to storms lately. Shown on the screen were images from a tornado on April 16, 2024 that took out a row of five electric poles on 144th Street. She showed another example from July 10th that showed cars driving under a fallen electric line. She stressed the importance of never doing this and thanked the police that responded to the scene to stop traffic. She also told a story about a man that had a line fall on his car and stressed the importance of staying in your car until the line can be moved. It’s when people get out of their cars when that happens that there are electrocution issues.

Jennifer explained that the wait time for getting lights back on is usually held up by having to identify other utility lines that may be in the ground that have to be identified before they can do any work. She also talked about the work that the linemen do throughout the year to prevent hazards with landscape. They have a strategic operational plan to spray every three years and trimming every seven years.