Geisha J. Williams (born Jimenez, c. 1961/1962)[1] is a Cuban American businesswoman. She was the president and CEO of the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) from March 2017 to January 13, 2019.[1][2] (wikipedia)
With Katrina, the fact that it came and left very quickly enabled us to get out of the gate very quickly.
We realized we were dealing with a significant amount of toppled trees that will need to be removed before we can make repairs.
The number of customers restored daily is actually slowing as we continue to work on the isolated damage. We are working neighborhood by neighborhood, pole by pole. The work is gritty and slow.
We plan for the worst. There are certain trigger points... but you have no control over the path, no control over the intensity.
The trees are many times larger and they were uprooted and toppled, blocking off roads. The girth, if you will, of some of these trees is very significant.
As a result of our early assessment, we will be setting some aggressive restoration goals in an effort to get everyone's lives back to normal as quickly as possible.
We're in the tough stage of the restoration.
I'm now confident we can better the time it will take to get all customers back into service.
It's just bizarre. We need to understand why it happened.
In the underground, you don't know what you have. You don't know where the break is. You don't know what the nature of the problem is. It takes much longer to diagnose the problem and be able to correct it.
