Arkansas linemen ride out Hurricane Helene, describe storm as ‘a beast’

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – While most people are following a mandatory evacuation for Helene, linemen are heading into the storm.

More than 100,000 people have already lost power in Florida and Georgia. Crews from Arkansas arrived in both states on Wednesday. They fueled up and got the food they may need for days without a store open.

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General Foreman Mike Matty has been doing so since 1997, going into the roughest conditions so people can see relief sooner, rather than later.

He and 53 other line workers with the Electric Cooperatives of Arkansas traveled to Keystone, Florida, which Matty said would be just east of the storm’s eye around midnight…

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