Oklahoma utility crews making a dent in power outage numbers

Getting the power back on is a top priority for thousands of utility crews, which have converged on Oklahoma. Many electric customers across northeast Oklahoma have been in the dark since Sunday when freezing rain began to fall and it could be several more days before some of them get their power restored. Oklahoma Gas & Electric reports it has 207,183 outages. The Public Service Company of Oklahoma has 196,835 customers without power; just fewer than 180,000 of those customers are in the Tulsa metro area. Elsewhere, Northeast Electric Cooperative is working to get 9,700 customers turned on. East Central Electric Cooperative has almost 9,700 customers in the dark. Seven-thousand customers in Verdigris Valley Electric’s coverage area are off line and 3,500 Indian Electric customers are without electricity.