Situation Update

Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE              

Situation Update 16

February 2, 2010, 4:15 p.m.

The State Emergency Operations Center (EOC) remains activated and the Oklahoma Department of Emergency Management (OEM) is in contact with emergency managers in the affected areas. Agencies and organizations represented at the State EOC include the: American Red Cross, Salvation Army, Oklahoma Military Department, Oklahoma State Department of Health, Oklahoma Highway Patrol, 2-1-1 Oklahoma, Oklahoma Department of Transportation, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Food and Forestry, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA. 

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission reports 70,899 homes and businesses are without electric service due to the winter storm, which includes the following. 

PSO reports 20,356 customers without power including those in: 

The Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority reports 14,916 customers without power in:

Lexington – 300

Purcell – 300

Altus – 9,300

Eldorado – 283

Olustee – 316

Duncan – 1,000

Marlow – 2,325

Granite – 613

Manitou – 209

Mangum – 270

City of Mangum is still on Municipal Generation.                                                    

The Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives (OAEC) reports 34,428 customers without power in:

Caddo Electric, Binger: 6,930

Canadian Valley Electric, Seminole: 3,147

Cotton Electric, Walters: 8,644

Harmon Electric Association, Hollis: 3,303

Kiwash Electric, Cordell: 3,000

Northfork Electric, Sayre: 600

Oklahoma Electric, Norman: 667

People’s Electric, Ada: 1,437

Rural Electric, Lindsay: 3,200

SW Rural Electric, Tipton: 3,500

OG&E reports 1,200 customers are without service.

There are 2,500 people who remain in local shelters and about 4,405 were served meals on Monday. The following 37 shelters and feeding centers remain open: 

Ada – Lazer Zone Family Fun, 14601 CR 3544

Altus – First Baptist Church, 300 N. Main

Altus – Altus Community Center, 401 Falcon Rd

Anadarko – First Baptist Church, 700 Pettree

Apache – Clark Community Center, 301 E. Evans St

Cache – Cahoma Building, 752 NW Quannah Road

Carnegie – First Assembly of God Church, 715 E. Oklahoma

Carnegie – Kiowa Complex, 100 Kiowa Way

Carnegie – Carnegie Elementary School, 202 West 4th St

Cement – School Gym, 201 N. Main Street

Chickasha – Grady County Fairgrounds, 500 East Choctaw

Cyril – Cyril Senior Center, 3 Ohio Street

Duncan – Stephens County Fairgrounds, 2002 S 13th Street

Elgin – Elgin Fire Department, 7892 US Highway 277

Geronimo – First Baptist Church

Granite – Granite Public School, 206 W. Parker

Hobart – First Methodist Church, 201 S. Washington

Hollis – Hollis Civic Center, 208 W. Jones

Lawton – Comanche Tribe Elder Center, 1107 SW H Ave

Lawton – Comanche Nation College, 1608 SW 9th

Lawton – Cameron Baptist Church, 2621 SW C Ave

Lawton – Hunting Horse Methodist, SW 25th & E

Lindsay – Calvary Baptist Church, 5th and Chickasaw

Mangum – Church of New Beginnings, 408 North Tittle Ave

Marlow – First Baptist Church of Marlow, 213 North Broadway

Medicine Park – Community Center

Roosevelt – First Baptist Church,132 Frederick

Rush Springs – Fire Department, 110 N. 3rd Street

Snyder – First Baptist Church, 729 E Street

Tipton – First Baptist Church, 300 East Davis Ave

Watonga – Watonga Cheyenne-Arapaho Community Center

Anadarko – First Baptist Church, 700 Petree

Blanchard – Telephone Building, 101 E Veteran’s Memorial Hwy

El Dorado – El Dorado Community Center, 514 W. Main

Hobart – First United Methodist, 201 S. Washington

McAlester – Salvation Army Office, 400 N. A Street

Fletcher – American Legion Building, Selby & Tenneppe

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