When he has to take care of storm damage, accidents, or equipment failure, he gets paid double time and he gets credit for every hour that he is away from the house
Storm season is always a busy time of the year for many different reasons. My husband and I live right in the path of many hurricanes. They travel up the coast and move inwards right on top of the city where we live. We have been here for almost two decades and we are accustomed to the problems that happen when hurricanes and tropical storms arise. For the last 5 years, my husband has been gone most of the time when there are storms. My husband works as a lineman. As a line worker, he is responsible for repairing, maintaining, and installing the power lines that deliver electricity from one place to another. My husband works on overhead lines, some stations, underground cables, and transformers. When storm activity takes down trees and power lines, my husband is one of the first to get called out during the storm. Last month we had a category 3 hurricane a few hours south of us. My husband was one of the first people to get called out. Luckily for us, he gets paid very well for emergency work. When he has to take care of storm damage, accidents, or equipment failure, he gets paid double time and he gets credit for every hour that he is away from the house. That includes drive time, sleep time, and lunch. We paid six months of mortgage payments when my hubby got called out for a week to deal with storm damage last year. That hurricane caused damage to power lines all over the southeast.