Storm Restoration & 24-Hour Response
From tornados to ice — when the grid goes dark, every hour counts. Call our 24-hour hotline and we roll.
Storm emergency? Reach us any hour, any day.
- 24-hour hotline (320) 269-6769 — press 1
- Email karianpeterson@
karianpeterson.com
Our main line prompts through to an on-call responder around the clock.
When the lights go out, the clock starts
A major storm doesn't wait for Monday morning. Ice loads snap conductors, straight-line winds fold structures, and a single failed span can leave an entire feeder — homes, farms, a hospital, a water-treatment plant — sitting in the dark. From the moment the lights go out, the clock starts and so do the questions: how bad is it, how long, and who can actually get here.
That's the call we're built to answer. Since 2000 we've treated storm response as a standing commitment, not an afterthought — priority 24-hour mobilization, equipment staged to move, and crews who've done this across five states and every kind of weather the Upper Midwest can throw at them.
How we work a storm
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Pick up the phone
You reach a real person, not a queue. We size up the damage with you, confirm scope and access, and tell you straight what we can have moving and when.
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Mobilize
Trucks, material, and crews stage and roll — priority 24-hour mobilization, so help is on the road while the weather's still clearing.
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Assess & make safe
On site, we patrol the damage, lock out hazards, and triage the rebuild so the largest blocks of customers — and the critical loads — come back first.
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Rebuild the line
Set structures, string conductor, splice and sag, re-frame what the storm took down. The same crews that build transmission and distribution from scratch are the ones putting it back.
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Restore & verify
Energize section by section, confirm the system is whole, and walk it with you before we call it done — then leave the site clean.
What this means for you
- Same-day movement — priority 24-hour mobilization means you’re not waiting in line behind every other utility in the region.
- One crew, start to finish — assessment, rebuild, and re-energizing handled by people who build this line every day.
- Fewer customer-hours in the dark — triage that restores the most critical and highest-count loads first.
- A safety record you can hand to your board — no major accidents since 2000, even on the hardest storm work.
- Proven across five states and every Upper-Midwest extreme — ice, wind, flood, and deep cold.
- 24/7 priority mobilization
- Same day crews on the road
- 25+ yrs storm response since 2000
- Zero major accidents since 2000
What we've done
Electric cooperative
A tornado came through South Dakota. We rolled out and rebuilt what it took down.
Electric cooperative
A wind storm put lines on the ground across the service territory.
Investor-owned utility
Straight-line winds tore through the system and we mobilized on the restoration.
Storms don’t keep business hours. Neither do we.
Save our 24-hour hotline before the next one hits — priority mobilization when it counts.