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Linemen work 16-hour days to restore power in Mississippi

(30 Jan 2026) ASSOCIATED PRESS Bentonia, Mississippi - 30 January 2026 1. POV on lineman's hands as he reattaches power line ++SOUNDBITE FULLY COVERED BY SHOTS 1, 3 &. 4++ 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Green, apprentice one lineman at Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association: "Long, tired, crazy, just all over the place." 3. Two linemen hoist power line up 4. Ethan Green, apprentice one lineman, tugs on rope 5. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Green, apprentice one lineman at Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association: "Setting poles, picking up wires, just trying to restore as much power as we can as quick as we can." 6. Wide as linemen work to fix wires ++SOUNDBITE FULLY COVERED BY SHOTS 6, 8 & 9++ 7. SOUNDBITE (English) Ethan Green, apprentice one lineman at Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association: "All I can say is we're working on it. But we can only go so quick. In order to do it safely, we have to take our time." 8. Lineman in bucket adjusts power lines 9. Yazoo valley sign in foreground with lineman in bucket in background ASSOCIATED PRESS Yazoo City, Mississippi - 30 January 2026 ++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 9 & 11++ 1O. SOUNDBITE (English) Michael Neely, the CEO and general manager of the Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association: "You get a lot of people back on, and then some of the ones left are extremely hard or areas that were just like, that you couldn't get to. I mean you couldn't even get in there to access it. So now, we're having to make slow moves to get in there and bringing in heavy equipment." ASSOCIATED PRESS Bentonia, Mississippi - 30 January 2026 11. Heavy machinery moves ASSOCIATED PRESS Yazoo City, Mississippi - 30 January 2026 12. Wade O'Brian, operation coordinator at Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association, talks on the phone in his office ++SOUNDBITE FULLY COVERED BY SHOTS 11 & 12++ 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Wade O'Brian, operation coordinator at Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association: "It's been brutal. The worst I've ever seen in 17 years." ++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED BY SHOTS 12 & 15++ 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Wade O'Brian, operation coordinator at Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association: "We've been working roughly around 16-hour days, and then trying to go home, take care of home, fuel generators, trying to keep generators running. And then back at work at 5 o'clock in the morning and then work another 16. It gets tiring, but we got a job to do." ASSOCIATED PRESS Bentonia, Mississippi - 30 January 2026 15. Lineman in bucket uses a ratchet 16. POV on lineman's hands as he adjusts line and sighs STORYLINE: Ethan Green, 21, an apprentice one lineman at the Yazoo Valley Electric Power Association, sat on the back of a mud-splattered pickup truck munching on pizza Thursday afternoon, taking a quick break before getting back to work. Green, who lost power at his home for two days, is working 16-hour days to help restore power in impacted areas. "Long, tired, crazy," he said. For Green, the past few days have been filled with downed trees, damaged wires and electric poles snapped under the weight of ice. On Thursday, he pulled a downed power line across a fence and hoisted it up to a fellow lineman waiting in a bucket above. He said he feels pressure to the job done quickly, knowing people are waiting on him for their power to return. "All I can say is we're working on it. But we can only go so quick," Green said. "In order to do it safely, we have to take our time." The other major challenge is access. AP Video by Sophie Bates Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...