My name is Cord Hughes and I am an apprentice III lineman for United Cooperative Services.
Calls started coming in early November with an unusually high number of United members thinking their high-speed internet service was down.
For more than a decade, United has assisted and educated members on ways to better manage their energy use.
Despite the appearance of a weak El Niño earlier in 2023, a heat dome from Mexico settled over the Lone Star State, causing persistent hot, dry…