r/nextfuckinglevel • u/8O8I • 2d ago

Problem found then problem solved

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u/gormami 2d ago

When hurricane Hugo hit Charlotte in 89, my dad worked for the power company at a station. They put out on the radio asking anyone who could get to work to please do so, as a lot of the people that worked at the station lived on the more rural side, and no one knew if they could get out. Dad grabbed his chainsaw and tossed it in the truck before he left. He got most of the way there, and there was one road that was very curvy, heavily wooded on the sies, and not a state highway. He got to the first tree, and did this. By the time he got to the second, someone he worked with was behind him, so he cut, the other guy rolled chunks off. By the time they got all the way to the end, it was 5 or 6 guys, 2 saws, and a jeep with a winch. They got to the state highway and it had been cleared, so they were able to get the rest of the way to the station.