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On after the wind event is over, sometime midday tomorrow, they dont just flip a switch and turn the power back on, they have to go out and physically inspect all of those lines to make sure if a limb has come down on one of those lines, they ve clear that, make sure everything is okay. They started turning off power in the Sierra Foothills around 2 00 this afternoon. Places like the peninsula, they could be impacted. Overnight stly. But as you said, it takes time to get it back up and running. They cant just turn it back on. We could have another wind event, possibly over the weekend. Yeah. S...

Preposition our resourcest each of those specific locations on our system in advance of the all clear. that way when we get it it's immediate communication to the field resources and then we can start our patrol and restora process. so along that line we have roughly 8,000 miles of distribution overhead system to patrol and roughly 650 miles of transmission system to patrol. we intend to do that via foot, via ground, and via air from an air resource perspective we have 42 helicopters that are in position and ready to begin that patrol sequence. we have approximately 6,000 field resources that ...