One of the pockets remaining without electricity Monday evening was about a mile-long stretch of South Crisswell Road in Penn Township.

Mike Raible and his neighbors lost power about 9 p.m. Thursday.

Still, he and his household — wife Joyce and their son Mike and his fiancee Chelsea Phipps — went to work on Friday.

Then Raible went to bear camp, he said, but came home from camp early Sunday to fire up his generators when his wife called to say it didn't look like the power was coming back on soon.

On Monday afternoon Raible was tending his three generators.

“I have that many because of being in the construction business,” he said. “It's not often people have three.”

He said he went to his shop for extra extension cords and the third generator. With those, he can run his well pump, hot water tank, all the lamps, two refrigerator/freezers and one freezer.

Raible even kindly set up the generator of his next door neighbor, who remained at bear camp, so his two refrigerators could be plugged in.

The neighborhood resounded with the reverberations of gas-powered electrical generation.

As we stood talking in the driveway, three official-looking trucks rumbled down the road below Raible's house.

Should we go down there and clap for them? he joked.

Maybe not yet.

Further investigation found neighbor Jackie Huff sitting in her car waiting for the trucks to move so she could get to her home a bit farther south on Crisswell. She said those workers told her they were just there to set poles, and in fact they left soon after that as dusk descended.

Unofficial neighborhood mayor Shawn Burns, who lives a little farther south on Crisswell, put up the yellow caution tape to block off the power lines hanging low over the road.

“People were driving over the power line!” Burns said, shaking his head. “There was no blockade, nothing to stop people from getting tangled up in that at night.”

Various residents cut up the multiple trees that had fallen at several points along South Crisswell.

“Some people got out (of their houses), but then more trees came down,” Burns said.

With the trees cleared, Burns said he went to work early Monday morning putting duct work in a new house.

“I'm getting a lot done because I don't have any TV,” he said. “I get up and go to work because I can't watch the news with the cable out, and I had to have my work calls forwarded to my cell phone.”

Burns, too, is running a generator to power his refrigerator, some lights and a large fish tank, anything that's 120 volts, he said. Plus he has a wood burner for heat.

“I don't wait very long. I go about 45 minutes (without power) and then I get the generator out,” he said.

After a 3 p.m. estimate to have power restored had passed, a call to West Penn Power reported the next estimate to be 11:30 p.m. Monday, but with no work on the downed wires in progress, expectations on South Crisswell were low for the night.

“I guess I gotta make another gas run for the generators,” Burns said.