Our local PoCo forbids anyone but themselves to touch the connections at the weatherhead. This applies to cutting them free to begin a service change, temporarily restoring power after a change, or ANY reason. 25 yrs ago they got tough on this, having had enough of the disasterous results of careless clowns who just couldn't treat these connections with the respect they deserved!
Now you call them and schedule...and wait for them on both ends. Sometimes it's 2-4 hrs before the re-energizing, but usually it is quite prompt, within 2 hrs of the inspectors call,