Power Returns To Panhandle Towns; No Fatalities Reported

BOISE CITY, Okla. (AP) Power has been restored to at least five towns in the Oklahoma Panhandle after the area's second major winter storm in two weeks. <br/><br/>Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management

Sunday, December 31st 2006, 8:10 am

By: News On 6

BOISE CITY, Okla. (AP) Power has been restored to at least five towns in the Oklahoma Panhandle after the area's second major winter storm in two weeks.

Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten says today power was restored to the towns of Boise City, Texhoma, Tyrone, Turpin and Hooker by about 11:30 p-m Sunday.

She says that at one point, 5,000 Tri-County Electric Cooperative customers had been without power.

The storm, which moved out of the area Sunday, dropped up to a foot-and-a-half of snow in western portions of the Panhandle.

It came only days after an ice storm on December 19th and 20th that officials say caused almost $1 million in damage in Texas County, one of three counties in the Panhandle.

Ooten says no fatalities or injuries due to the storm have been reported.