Dive Summary:
- After Monday’s tornado, Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co. reported that 38,000 customers were without power in Moore, a suburb of Oklahoma City. The utility has now called on outside utilities to help restore power. At least 91 people have died in the deadly tornados ravaging the Midwest.
- "We have a mix of outages on our system and are beginning the assessment process to determine the full extent of the damage to our transmission and distribution system," spokesman Brian Alford said.
- Monday's tornado shares a great similitude with the massive Oklahoma tornado on May 3, 1999 which downed four major power lines powering Oklahoma City and destroyed massive transmission towers, substations and transformers.
From the article:
“It took months to rebuild OG&E's high-voltage network. OG&E reported more than $15 million in tornado damage in 1999.”