He has been with Verizon for 18 years and said he has been much busier with overtime ever since the Springfield tornado in 2011.
I take his opinion with the caveat that crews from pretty far away can get called in for fairly localized events so it’s difficult to speak for New England as a whole.
He is stationed out of Haverhill and Boston which were not affected by the tornado yet he spent a week working down in that Wilbraham - Sturbridge corridor that got nailed.