Ice Storm Wreaks Havoc

This week's ice storm has left Oklahoma City looking like a battle zone. It's also crippled TMRO and many other sites, as electricity has yet to be restored. As the power outages mount and insurance estimators begin to calculate the damge, these developments:

1 - Governor Brad Henry, on vacation in Hawaii when the storm hit, booked his return to Oklahoma as Lt. Governor Jari Askins declared the entire state a disaster area. 2 - OG&E, PSO, OEC and other power providers report outages are the worst ever. The difference in this storm and others appears to be that it "trained" freezing rain over the Oklahoma City and Tulsa metro areas as well as the rest of the state; past storms hit rural areas and some cities. 3 - On Monday afternoon, 70 percent of Tulsa was without power. In Oklahoma City, OG&E reported about 295,000 customers were without power. 4 - It appears it could be a week to 10 days before power is restored to all customers.

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