SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- Over a million people are still without power in the southeastern part of the U.S. in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene.Several South Dakotans are now on their way to the region to help with the recovery. 20 power linemen from five different companies in South Dakota are on their way to help restore electricity in an area of northwest South Carolina. KELOLAND News caught up with them before they headed out on the road. "This will be my first hurricane, so I don't know really what to expect," Sioux Valley Energy lineman Jeremy Rollag said. One by one power crews rolled into the Flying J parking lot to gather together before heading out on the road. Xcel Energy sending employees to help restore power in GA "Yesterday they sent out a text from our operations manager wanting to know who would be interested in going to help," Rollag said. Rollag is one of the crewmen who volunteered. Wade Bialas of East River Electric is another. "I've never been down there myself, so I don't know what to expect, I've heard anywhere from swamp land to hills, so probably a wide variety of stuff we could run into," Bialas said. Like so many areas of the southeast right now, South Carolina is also dealing with lots of downed poles and power lines. Restoring power is what these guys do. They're used to responding to wind storms and ice storms. The working conditions down there they say could be a little more challenging, but they're ready for anything. The crews say it's going to take them about 20 hours to get there so they hope to be to work by Friday. As far as how long they're expected to stay, they were told to pack for two weeks. "It's just the Midwest mentality, you know, whenever there's a problem it's always nice to lend a helping hand, it is a little farther away than what we are used to, but if we can help out in any way, it's always nice to help out," Bialas said. "We're always willing to help we have plenty of our own storms that go on here and we get crews in from everywhere else so we're always willing to go help it's just our nature," Rollag said.