More than 2,000 employees and 7,000 contractors and workers from other utilities contributed to the restoration effort. In 18 days our system was restored, safely, without a single lost time incident.

• 1,800 motel rooms daily
• 10,000 meals daily
• 12,000 gallons of fuel for 900 trucks daily
• SCE&G purchased 5,435 poles; 3,356 transformers; more than 10 million feet of wire; 16,071 cross arms; 43,506 insulators; 11,637 fuse cutouts and 31,198 fuses.
• 15 states and 48 companies provided 2,600 extra helping hands, trucks and crews
• 19 tractor-trailers (630,000 pounds) of dry ice distributed "free" to civilians in Columbia and Charleston
• 7,000 free propane gas tanks distributed
• SCE&G ran buses for at least 20,000 passengers, helping to evacuate and return individuals to their homes
• 25,000 distribution maps given to crews to navigate our service system
• Daily laundry service for 3,600 workers for 14 days
• Safety packets, radios and generators were distributed to crews
• Purchasing shifts ran 24 hours a day
• Employees volunteered to support the crews to get the power back on through meal preparation and manning customer call centers
• Retired employees were called in to help
• SCE&G logo wear identified employees to the public and the National Guard
• One week after Hugo – 43 percent of SCE&G customers restored