This winter is really cold, but even if it is so cold, there are still front-line workers working tirelessly, just like the electric workers walking in the snow in Jiucaiping, Hezhang County, the highest peak in Guizhou. They are also called ice keepers. Their job is to walk on ice and snow, cross difficult mountain roads and patrol power lines in the mountains in winter when the temperature is extremely low. If the snow holds down the power lines, they will have to trudge more than ten kilometers in the cold. All these efforts are aimed at ensuring the normal and safe transmission of electricity to all households.

Power workers in Guizhou have to work hard in the cold to ensure the power safety of thousands of households. The winter temperature in Guizhou is as low as-10℃, the ice thickness on the snowy mountain road is about 2 cm, and the slope on the mountain is steep and slippery. In order to check the power lines, electric workers had to carry tools on foot and climb over two hills in the cold snow, just to ensure the normal electricity consumption of every household. These special electric workers are called ice watchers. This profession may be unheard of. Ice watchers walking on the snow line? Scouts, regardless of cold, wind and frost, loneliness and cold, are a group of people who are responsible for monitoring the icing of transmission lines built on the top of the mountain. In order to ensure that every household can use electricity normally, they walk in the depths of the snow-covered and cold mountains every day. Especially in snowy weather, if the wires are covered with ice and do not melt immediately, it will do great harm to the whole power line and be extremely unsafe.

The work of electric workers is very hard, but they have no regrets about the icing of transmission lines. Icing will not only crush a piece of transmission lines, but also lead to the paralysis of the whole transmission line in serious cases. On snowy days in winter, ice keepers play a very important role. They must hike up the mountain and then observe the route with binoculars. Once they find ice, they should use ice melting technology to deal with it in time. For ice watchers, the most difficult part is deicing. Fortunately, now they have DC ice melting. The technology of direct current melting ice is very good. Many years ago, ice watchers had to wear gloves and anklets, then tie a pole rope, climb up the pole and knock on the ice a little. For them, the process of melting ice is very difficult, because the covered ice does not fall off completely after starting the ice melting device, but falls off bit by bit, so these ice keepers have to stay in the snow for many hours until all the ice cubes fall off before they can leave with peace of mind.

Some people may ask, can't the work of checking the circuit be replaced by a machine? The answer is no, because machines are not human eyes, and it is difficult to monitor them accurately, so the work of ice watchers is very important. They are used to the cold and snowy weather. Every time they fall down on the mountain and catch cold in the snow, they have long been used to it. Because they fall too many times, they no longer feel so painful.