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Friday morning storm update

Posted on January 29, 2010.

Light snow is falling and is expected to for several hours. The bigger issue this morning is what that snow, combined with the sleet from yesterday afternoon, will do to the roads.
At best, it will be a slow go, but you are better off just staying home if possible. The precipitation should clear off by this afternoon but cold temperatures will keep driving conditions rough today.
For Saturday and Sunday, though it will be rough on a lot of neighborhood streets and back roads, should be better on the main roads.
As far as power outages, the expected big rash of them happened, but the bulk of it missed the Oklahoma City metro area. Other than about 1,800 outages in McLoud, on the very eastern edge of the metro area, OG&E’s system watch showed about 200 outages in the metro area with 87 in Norman just before 8 a.m. But to the south and east of the metro, the last wave of sleet and wind I had mentioned in one of my last entries Thursday caused some issues. More than 10,000 customers in areas stretching from McLoud south toward Ada, Seminole and Holdenville and back to the west toward Pauls Valley are still in the dark this morning.
Also, Public Service Company of Oklahoma has a lot of work to do with nearly 12,000 outages in Chickasha and areas south of there along highway 81 toward Duncan and west along highway 277 through Cement and Cyril toward Lawton are seeing heavy numbers of outages. PSO said early Monday it was sending many crews from the Tulsa area, which was not hit hard, to western Oklahoma go help get restoration done as quickly as possible.

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