LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) -- In the midst of hurricane season, local utility companies are geared up for what mother nature may bring.

News 10 spoke with Mary Laurent, Slemco communications coordinator, about how crews are already preparing to keep the lights on when a storm hits.

“Every year we begin in March and we update our emergency restoration plan, whether it's for a hurricane or tornadoes or straight line winds or whatever. We update that every year,” Laurent said. “We always beef up our inventory of poles and transformers and that sort of thing. We always renew our contracts with contractors and other cooperatives to come in and help restore power should a storm hit here in our service area. So we always do that every year and that's kind of one of those things that's automatic and

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