Power outages reach 141,941 in Oklahoma

 
Staff Writers | Modified: January 29, 2010 at 6:39 am | Published: January 28, 2010    Comment on this article Leave a comment

More than 141,941 utility customers were without power in Oklahoma Friday morning nearly doubling the number of affected customers since the sun went down.

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More than 67,000 customers were without power at 5:30 p.m., according to state emergency management spokeswoman Michelann Ooten. That number jumped to over 141,941 by 5:00 a.m., she said.

More than 55,000 Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives customers in southwestern, south central and central Oklahoma were without power as of 9:30 p.m., Ooten said.

Nearly 44,000 customers on the Public Service Co. of Oklahoma network in western Oklahoma were also without power about 9:30 p.m., spokesman Stan Whiteford said. Outages in Chickasha, Hobart and Lawton were affecting more than 37,000 customers, he said.

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