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| Westar Energy crews assist AEP with ice storm restoration |
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1-28-2010 | 10:00 AM
84 Westar employees, including line personnel, management, safety personnel, material handlers and fleet personnel are departing for Tulsa this morning to assist Oklahoma in anticipation of one-half to one inch of ice accumulation.
Westar also released all distribution line contractors and 100 line clearance contract employees to assist AEP-PSO.
1-28-2010 | 4:00 PM
All Westar crews have arrived safely in Tulsa. Waiting to see what mixture of freezing rain, sleet and snow brings.
1-29-2010 | 12:30 PM
Crews were on standby this morning to learn of their job duties. As of early morning, there were approximately 70,000 AEP-PSO customers without power and 18,000 OGE customers without power.
1-30-2010 | 10:20 AM
Crews have been relocated to Oklahoma City for reassignment. AEP-PSO is currently reporting 45,599 customers without power. Half of those are in the Lawton area, which is south and west of Oklahoma City.
1-30-2010 | 8:00 PM
Crews have been relocated to the Lawton area. Staying in Wichita Falls.
1-31-2010 | 5:00 PM
Group 1: Couple of crew are working on pole replacement on a 3 phase line running along a rural road where a pole caused a road to be closed. Couple crews are working single scattered outages throughout Lawton.
Group 2: Majority of crews are working in Sterling (approx. 20 miles NE of Lawton). Crews are replacing 18-20 poles and cross arms on a 2 mile 3 phase line into the town of Sterling.
Temperatures are still too cold for ice melting to begin. Often, there will be additional outages as ice begins to melt.
2-1-2010 | 5:00 PM
As of 2:45 PM, there were still 34,172 AEP-PSO customers without service.
Group 1: Crews continued setting poles in a right-of-way in Lawton.
Group 2: Crews are finishing up the pole and cross arm replacement in Sterling. Experienced a set back this morning when a semi truck knocked down a 3 phase line that was repaired last night. Soggy ground conditions have made anchoring difficult which has slowed down the restoration process.
Next tentative job assignment is in Elgin.
2-2-2010 | 5:45 PM
As of 2:45 PM, there were still 19,436 AEP-PSO customers without service.
Group 1: Crews continue to work in the Lawton area. Crews are working to isolate a section of distribution line underbuilt on a downed 138KV line to pick up a large area.
Group 2: Crews started in Elgin this morning on a mainline. A couple crews completed Sterling this afternoon.
Crews are now working a mainline section between Sterling/Elgin.
Most of the ice melted today. Rain is in the forecast.
2-3-2010 | 3:40 PM
As of 2:30 PM, there were still 9,422 AEP-PSO customers without service.
Estimated time of restoration per PSO website for the Lawton area is 2/4.
Group 1: Crews continue to clean up on 3 circuits in Lawton. Work includes easement pole replacements, secondary replacement, services and general walk down items.
Group 2: Crews continue to work between Elgin and Sterling, making repairs to the mainline. We anticipate energizing the line today. Once the line is energized, crews will close the lateral switches from Elgin to Sterling.
2-4-2010 | 5:00 PM
As of 2:15 PM, there were still 1,929 AEP-PSO customers without service.
Estimated time of restoration per PSO website for the Lawton area is 2/5.
Group 1: Most crews are working on a temporary 3-phase line feeding a sheetrock business NE of Fletcher. Other crews remained in Lawton doing pole replacement.
Group 2: Crews finished working east of Elgin on two projects feeding approximately 20 customers.
Most crews have consolidated with Group 1 to restore service to the industrial sheetrock business.
2-5-2010 | 10:00 PM
All AEP-PSO customers that can receive service have been restored.
Crews continued doing an excellent job throughout the day. They should be released to return to Kansas in the morning.
2-6-2010 | 7:00 PM
Crews hit the road early this morning for Kansas. All crews should be safely home at this time.
AEP-PSO and customers continually complimented Westar crews efforts and professionalism.
Twitter users: use the #okice hashtag to follow Oklahoma weather conditions.
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