A story that has gone largely untold in the aftermath of the Windsor tornado is that of Enwin Utility employees, who worked around-the-clock when close to 7,000 customers lost power during last Wednesday’s night twisters.
For the most part, crews have been working ever since -- to fix the damage left behind, especially in the Rhodes Industrial Park.
The hardest hit area in Windsor was along Deziel Drive, where transformers were knocked to the ground and 13 hydro poles were snapped in half.
Enwin Supervisor Raymond Forget was the first person on the scene Wednesday night. He tells CTV News they “isolated the area that the storm hit and we got most of the power back on that we could.”
Forget says they also put a plan in place to quickly rebuild what they had to, but only when it was safe to. He insists safety is always their top priority, for workers and the public.
On the first night, 25 workers were called. By the next morning, power was back on for most businesses. Crews continued to work 16 hours a day, and by Saturday, all of the infrastructure was back in place.
Enwin's work would have been done on Saturday But crews were asked to help get power back at Kautex, where the storm damaged two transformers. For now, the transformers will operate off back-up generators.
In his 29 years as an Enwin employee, Forget says he's never seen an industrial area hit this hard after a storm.
He admits it’s been a long week and everyone is tired but everyone has pulled together to get this job done.
