Coping with the power outage

This weekâ€™s severe thunderstorms knocked down hundreds of trees, cutting the power to thousands of customers and generally disrupted our lives. <br/><br/>News on 6 reporter Rick Wells went out looking

Thursday, June 3rd 2004, 4:45 pm

By: News On 6

This weekâ€™s severe thunderstorms knocked down hundreds of trees, cutting the power to thousands of customers and generally disrupted our lives.

News on 6 reporter Rick Wells went out looking for people to talk to, and expected to find frustration maybe some anger. It may be out there, he just didn't find it. Tulsans are coping.

A city of Tulsa work crew has removing one of dozens of trees knocked over during the storm. The latest tree was blocking a street and the crew spent a couple of hours removing it.

Over at Best Electric and Hardware people are shopping in the dark for things that'll help them beat the darkness at home. Rich Womack with Best Electric: â€œEverybody's coming in for batteries and flashlights."

Linda Hinkle who lives down the street has found some oil lamps. "We're all dark. We have trees down everywhere." Mike Taylor in the 4200 block of Owasso is dealing with that very problem. A good-sized limb snapped off and landed on the roof. He's hoping he can handle it. "I hope so, I don't have the money to pay for it." Lots of similar scenes around the Brookside area.

Some Tulsa firefighters were babysitting a downed power line. It was still hot so they had to wait for AEP-PSO to safely turn it off.

Ron Hart came home from work to check on the fridge.

Here's a tip, if the food in your freezer still has ice crystals when the power comes back on, it can be safely re-frozen or cooked at a later date. Safest advice, when in doubt throw it out.