EASTHAM — At least 60 trucks and some 200 emergency electrical workers were stationed at the Four Points by Sheraton hotel here last Friday waiting for Saturday’s winter storm to roll through and wreak havoc.

The hotel began to buzz with activity two days before the storm, and crews left on Monday, two days afterwards, said manager Korry Singer. “I’ve been in the hotel industry since 1997,” Singer added. “It’s always an adventure — that’s the fun of it.”

The Sheraton has an arrangement with Eversource, Singer said, so the hotel’s core staff of six were ready, knowing they’d be hosting electrical workers during the storm. Singer, who lives in West Barnstable, said she came to work on Friday and didn’t have a chance to go home until late Monday.

Ian Collins, one of the linemen, was in the parking lot on Friday. “It’s a waiting game right now,” Collins said. Like most of the workers at the hotel, Collins is from just outside Nashville, Tenn.

Collins said he has been an electrical worker for 20 years for both Pacific Electric Co. and now Besco Electric, one of several companies that sent workers to the Cape. Besco had the largest numbers — seven or eight different crews with five workers on each crew, said Collins.

He described the crew members’ pre-storm routine: they check through their gear, make sure their trucks are in order, tanks filled with diesel fuel. And constantly, they watch the weather, Collins said.

The previous night, arriving crews had dinner at Local Break in the center of town.

Empty snack wrappers and bags could be seen piled on the dashboards of the utility trucks. Collins said it took a couple of days for the crews to make it up this way from Tennessee.

Standing next to Collins in the Sheraton lot was 20-year-old Josh Biton. The two Tennesseans had been here before. Collins has made several trips; Biton first came to Cape Cod in August when Hurricane Henri was approaching. But that hurricane didn’t make landfall here.

Biton and Collins both said of that visit to the Outer Cape that they remember the mosquitos more than anything else.

Most of the workers bring a “go bag” with enough clothes and supplies to last a week in case the storm is serious. After their short August stay on the Cape, Biton said he and some of the other crew members went on to Louisiana, where Hurricane Ida hit hard and flooding was serious. They were stationed there for a month in what Biton called “man camps,” though he added that the set up was actually pretty comfortable.

The crews did not seem fazed when the hotel itself lost power on Saturday.

“These guys are really kind and just incredibly patient,” said Singer. “We lost electricity, heat, and the internet at about 9 a.m.” Until the hotel got power again 24 hours later, a small generator kept hallway and emergency lights on. The backup helped the chef keep the kitchen going, Singer said. “We made it work.”

As of Friday, the forecast was growing firmer: two feet of snow for the Outer Cape. Although they weren’t planning a stay like the month-long one in Louisiana, they were prepared, they said.

Do they think storms are overhyped?

“I think it’s good to hype it up and get people prepared,” Collins said. “Public awareness is a good idea in times like this.”