Powerless (2015)
“ Junior Hickman, a large, barrel-chested man, climbs into the bucket truck to make one final line connection before he and the crew break for lunch. With the temperature hovering around thirty-three degrees, he’s working in a sleet-snow mix interspersed with a bone-chilling rain. He gives a thumbs-up to the other two men on the crew and, using a joystick attached to the bucket, begins his ascent toward the new high-voltage line they’re building along Route 2, on the outskirts of Fairbanks.
Jun...ior, a twenty-five-year veteran lineman for Alaska Power and Light, has experienced the extremes of Alaskan weather. The day-after-day cold that seeps into his bones during the winter months and the battles with swarms of mosquitoes during the summer. He extends the boom to near-maximum capacity to reach the lower wire. Because the HVDC—high-voltage, direct current—line is not yet energized he forgoes the elbow-length rubber gloves and doesn’t bother with the rubber shields in the area he will be working.MoreLess
Jun...ior, a twenty-five-year veteran lineman for Alaska Power and Light, has experienced the extremes of Alaskan weather. The day-after-day cold that seeps into his bones during the winter months and the battles with swarms of mosquitoes during the summer. He extends the boom to near-maximum capacity to reach the lower wire. Because the HVDC—high-voltage, direct current—line is not yet energized he forgoes the elbow-length rubber gloves and doesn’t bother with the rubber shields in the area he will be working.MoreLess
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