You’ve probably seen the trucks and the Dominion employees out working on power lines after a big storm but inside Dominion’s emergency preparedness center, they work on where trucks, people and equipment need to be before storms even get here.
“We’re trying to organize and strategically place those resources,” said Emory Nadeau with Dominion.
“We have access to real time model data,” said Jeff Mock.
Mock is one of the meteorologists that’s constantly tracking weather for the company in the storm center. Mock looks at much of the same data that our meteorologists look at.
“Will we have pockets of heavy lightening or widespread heavy lightening, are we going to have 40 mph wind gusts or 80 mph wind gusts,” said Mock.
But Mock says they take it a step further, and try to determine what the weather will do to power lines and how many customers could potentially be impacted.
“How many power outages in which locations at which times,” said Mock.
The meteorologists then communicate that information to everyone in the emergency preparedness center.
“It’s a beehive of activity, no doubt,” said Nadeau.
He calls it organized chaos before and during a storm. There they can see which customers and what equipment have been affected.
“We have complete vision over all of our facilities,” said Nadeau.
Nadeau says while they work quickly, safety is a top priority. He calls the information they gather, and the communication at the center, key to protecting customers and employees.
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