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OG&E Electric Services has completed all of its restoration work in northwest Oklahoma following the recent ice storm, said John Little, district manager.

Little said there are some individual residences that must have an electrician work on problems within the homes before electricity can be restored, but OG&E has restored all outages in the area.

“There are no more outages in the OG&E service territory in northwest Oklahoma,” Little said.

The restoration effort ended Thursday although some customers still have to repair damage “on their side of the meter.” Once that is done their electricity will be connected, Little said.

“All the poles, wires and transformers have been repaired and all the serviceline work is done,” he said.

Electric lines fell because of the weight of the ice or tree limbs that fell on them. Those lines will occasionally pull wiring from a house through the weather head on the outside of the home, he said. An electrician must repair that wiring before OG&E will connect their electric lines.

“We get everything ready and prepared and when the electrician remounts the wiring we will restore,” Little said.

Little said the northwest Oklahoma area is fortunate they “dodged a bullet” during the recent storm. Electricity in the northwest Oklahoma area was barely affected. Restoration in Kremlin, Hillsdale, Garber and Hunter have been completed.

“The last outage had nominal effect. It didn’t affect us much at all up here. We had under 200 people out in the Enid area and were done within the first day or so. It didn’t have the same effect as the folks down south. They had what we had in 2002,” Little said. “We paid our dues five years ago.”

The Enid area sent crews to Oklahoma City and kept one in Enid in reserve. United Way in Oklahoma City is working with OG&E and other companies to provide funding for families that cannot afford electricians to restore their home wiring. OG&E contributed $200,000 to that fund.

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