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Outages don’t leave Oklahoma towns powerless

BY DARLA SLIPKE | Published: January 31, 2010

Oklahomans who found themselves without power after this past week’s ice storms are working together to ride out the outages.

Purcell resident Denice Davis lost power to her home Thursday afternoon and had to get a ride to her job because more than half a foot of snow was blocking her way out.

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"It’s a pretty serious situation down here,” Davis said. "We have tree limbs down everywhere.”

Saturday evening, more than 115,000 customers were without...
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