PSO Working To Restore Final Power Outages

Thousands of homes and business in Tulsa are still without power for the third day. Early Wednesday morning, a front moved through with wind clocked in places at 90 miles an hour.

The damage is done and the cleanup is underway, but people should be able to turn off their generators soon.

PSO's repairs continue and now it's down to about 14,000 homes without electricity.

Here's where the outages remain: in the northwest quadrant, it's over 7,000 homes; 2,500 in the northeast quadrant; 3,500 in the southwest corner; and repairs are almost done in the southeast quadrant, where only 200 customers are still waiting for repairs.

PSO says power should be back on for everyone by Saturday afternoon.

About 1,000 workers from other cities and states are assisting about 370 local workers with the restoration process.

Less than 100 OG&E customers are still in the dark.

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The next step is cleanup, and over the next few weeks the city plans to haul off any limbs and leaves left by the curb.

"We're going to make one trip and one trip only to pick up and we're going to drive every street in the city as we do this," said Dan Crossland, with the City of Tulsa.

In the City of Tulsa debris pickup starts Monday. The city will make a single pass, but covering every street will take a month to do.

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The city plans to post an online map of the schedule next week.

The regular trash service will continue, but anything that's green will be picked up separately, even the largest limbs and sections of trees.

The normal rules don't apply, and during the special sweep, they'll pick up green waste in bags, as well.

"Anything that's in a bag, it doesn't have to be stickered, doesn't have to be in a clear bag, as long as it's obvious to us that it's greenwaste, then we're going to pick that up also," Crossland said.

The Red Cross says it's cooling station at Crosstown Church of Christ at 3400 East Admiral Place will close Friday at 8 p.m.