North Texas residents are getting assistance from San Antonio as they pull their lives back together following the violent storms that spawned killer tornadoes on Saturday.
Preston Alsept is a lineman with Chain Electric which is a contractor for CPS Energy. His team was alerted early Sunday morning to move out for the city of Rowlett, a suburb to the northeast of Dallas. Alsept was stunned by what he observed upon arriving in Rowlett.
“I mean everything’s tore up. There’s cars upside down. There’s big cinder block walls and they’re just laid over. Houses completely gone. Once we started working, setting our poles, I was booming up to set the wire up and I mean you could see from the air, there’s just a line where the tornado went. There would be a house completely fine, maybe a shingle missing or two and then the house next to it…completely leveled…10 foot away,” Alsept said.
Alsept says the people of Rowlett have been incredibly resilient and gracious to the workers who are trying to get the power restored. Alsept says he's been working more than 16-hour days and once the crews get power back to Rowlett they'll likely move on to Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas.
