Saturday afternoon Shane Beasley was helping coach a youth basketball game of fourth- and fifth-graders.
Monday morning, Beasley boarded a 9:30 a.m. flight to head to Puerto Rico to help the people there reconnect to each other and the outside world.
Beasley, a Signal Mountain civil engineer who has spent the last 15 years as a transmission system specialist with the Tennessee Valley Authority, was part of a team sent to Puerto Rico, the small island nation still trying to rebuild from the devastating effects of a devastating hurricane four months ago.
“Pretty cool, huh?” Beasley said before the flight. “It’s exciting, but I’d be lying if I said I was not nervous, too.”
Beasley will join Jeff Phillips, another systems expert, and construction ace Randy Perry as part of the local TVA contingent “deployed” for the next 30 days to Puerto Rico.