More Oklahomans Without Power Getting Service Restored

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OKLAHOMA CITY -- Less than 1,000 homes and businesses remained without electric power after tornadoes and severe weather tore across Oklahoma.

The Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives is keeping track of the outages:

• Caddo Electric Cooperative, Binger: 125 poles destroyed; 10 residential outages remaining today, total of 79 meters out; all residential customers should be on by late today; remaining by Friday evening.
• Canadian Valley Electric Cooperative, Seminole: 2 poles destroyed; peak outages at 300. Power has been restored to all consumer-members that can safely receive electricity.
• Central Rural Electric Cooperative, Stillwater: 25 poles destroyed; less than 5 residential outages remaining, 2 oil field. Should have all restored by this evening.
• Cimarron Electric Cooperative, Kingfisher: 450+ poles destroyed; approximately 450 meters without power, 375 residential of that total. Most residential to be restored by Friday. Alfalfa EC and Harmon EA crews assisting.
• East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Okmulgee: 4 poles destroyed; peak outages 3,540. Power has been restored to all consumers who can safely receive electric service.
• Indian Electric Cooperative, Cleveland: 15 poles destroyed; Less than 15 outages remain. All consumers who can safely receive electric service should be restored by end of day Friday.
• Kiamichi Electric Cooperative, Wilburton: 32 poles destroyed; 1 outage remaining.
• Lake Region Electric Cooperative, Hulbert: 18 poles destroyed; All power has been restored to all consumers who can receive power safely.
• Northeast Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Vinita: 10 poles destroyed Tuesday, 228 destroyed in Sunday's tornadoes. 9,500 outages at peak; 230 outages now remaining.
• Oklahoma Electric Cooperative, Norman: 210 poles destroyed; 203 outages remain; peak outages - 15,060. All power should be restored to those who can safely receive it by end of day Friday. Most of the remaining outages at OEC are in the Blanchard to Newcastle and Washington to Goldsby areas. 
• People's Electric Cooperative, Ada: 8 poles destroyed; peak outages at 1,600 around 10:00 PM Tuesday night. All power has been restored to those who can safely receive it.
• Red River Valley REA, Marietta: 14 poles destroyed; Power was restored to all consumers in the Ringling and Mannsville areas by 7:00 PM Wednesday night.
• Rural Electric Cooperative, Lindsay: 100 poles destroyed; 13 outages remaining.
• Western Farmers Electric Cooperative, Anadarko: at least 71 high-voltage transmission structures damaged/destroyed; 1 sub (Cana) destroyed.

At last count, Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives says the 14 rural electric cooperatives have 998 customers without power.

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