Nick Chilelli, 48, of Cincinnati, Ohio, waits in a convoy of utility repair trucks on US Highway 27 near Orlando, Florida September 9, 2017. A car accident had stalled the utility trucks, amassed from around the nation by Florida Power and Light. REUTERS/Brian Thevenot
ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - Nick Chilelli had been driving his utility truck with a broken air conditioner for about 18 hours, all the way from Cincinnati, when his convoy got trapped behind a car wreck just outside Orlando, Florida, at about 2 a.m. Saturday morning.
They were among thousands of line workers racing through the night to stage their trucks and tools for Hurricane Irma, a monstrous storm expected to knock out power to half of the nation's third most-populous state.
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