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Article: ICE STORM WAS BAD, BUT NIMO SAW WORSE; 650 CREWS WERE CALLED FOR THIS ICE STORM; 1998 STORMS DID MORE DAMAGE. STILL, THIS ONE AFFECTED 258,000 CUSTOMERS.(Business)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- April 11, 2003
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Byline: Tim Knauss Staff writer
About 3 a.m. Saturday, Pete Lebro and Joe Godlewski left the Niagara Mohawk storm center to get a few hours sleep, confident that the vicious ice storm sweeping through the state had already done its worst.
It hadn't.
Lebro, vice president of operations, and Godlewski, director of delivery engineering services, guide storm recovery efforts at Niagara Mohawk.
By the wee hours of Saturday, they had assigned 44 extra Niagara Mohawk line crews from areas not affected by the storm to Central New York, the area hardest hit. Another 70 crews based in Central New York were also working on restoration, as were ...