TAHOKA – It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s Superman! ...Or in Lynn County, it’s actually a fearless man standing on the struts outside of a bright red helicopter hovering high above the earth, wearing not a red cape but a neon yellow safety vest and harness.
He took to the skies to work on the new electric transmision lines going across the rural portion of the county.
It was an unusual sight along FM 2054, where the new transmission line poles tower above the ground. Unusual because the lines were not only being strung by a bright red helicopter zipping along ...