Dive Summary:

• Utility workers in Pennsylvania have been told to cancel vacations in order to make themselves available for possible emergency work.
• PPL Corp. has canceled personal time for its workers and plans to import crews from its sister utility in Kentucky as early as Sunday night should the need arise.
• PECO and FirstEnergy are also getting ready for the storm; PECO opened its emergency operations center outside Philadelphia on Thursday morning.

From the article:

Utilities, road crews, and emergency management personnel throughout Pennsylvania are girding for a potentially damaging storm early next week.

Utility workers have been told to cancel vacations, state transportation officials are plotting strategy and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency has been in touch with federal weather forecasters about the likely path of the storm. ...