WALTERS – Cotton Electric crews worked throughout the day Saturday and are being called in to get some rest. “Safety and productivity become an issue after dark,” said Steve Lyons, vice president of operations.
Work will start up again around 6:30 a.m. Sunday. All field crews and construction crew will be joined by eight new line crews in the continued effort to restore power.
CEC crews will work in the Medicine Park area and the Hulen/Pumpkin Center area. Several crews will work in the Marlow and Duncan area. Because of the number of broken poles, power restoration in these areas may take 7 to 10 days.
“We still have major transmission problems,” said Warren Langford, CEO. Damage to Western Farmers Electric Cooperative (WFEC) structures has power out at CEC substations. Langford said, “If the Cache substation is not energized tomorrow, we will attempt to back feed the sub and try to pick up as many members as we can.
“We’ve made some progress today,” he said. “We restored power to approximately 8,000 members.” As of 8:40 p.m., 9,510 members were still without power due to transmission and distribution issues.
Langford pointed out that this is a dangerous time and cautioned members to stay away from downed power lines.
Members with Internet access can monitor outage information of the Cooperative’s Web site, cottonelectric.com. A link shows the location of outages and the number of members affected. The site is updated regularly.
Members are reminded that to report service outages or other electrical problems, please call (580) 875-3351 or (800) 522-3520. A local dispatcher is on duty 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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