"I'm talking about listening to the National Weather Service and pulling the plug before the lines go down," said McCullough, the Portland, Oregon-based energy disaster consultant with 40 years' ...

But he just couldn’t stop thinking about power lines. Or rather ... to tell if it’s hollow before we climb it for safety reasons.” That’s a laborious and time-consuming process.

We saw the flash of light and then heard the boom,” said Emerson Galicia, a resident of the OakRidge Mobile Home Park, northeast of Interstates 5 and 210, recalling the moment before he ...