As Jeff Painter disembarked a charter plane in Westchester, N.Y., Oct. 28, the havoc of Superstorm Sandy was not as immediately prevalent as he had expected. But within a few blocks, Painter saw downed trees and telephone poles from the window of the bus transporting him and three other Grass Valley Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) employees there to help repair those same downed power lines. “What we saw immediately wasn’t even close to what we ended up seeing,” Painter said Friday, back home in Grass Valley. Painter, along with fellow Grass Valley workers Mike Rubio, Darrell Webb and Armando …