I drive Uber a couple times a week... and before the last storm picked up three guys at walmart and brought them to a hotel. while chatting, they said they were line workers flown in from Utah in preparation for power outages. They had already been there a couple of days and it was a couple of days until the storm was supposed to hit.
As I dropped them off, I told them that I hope they didn't have anything to do until they left. they laughed.