February, 2016 www.harmonelectric.com


Ice and Wind Wreak Havoc on HEA Territory


Mother Nature showed up with a vengeance the weekend after Christmas. December 26th provided winds in excess of 50 mph and they blew steadily throughout Saturday night, all day Sunday, and Monday morning. Ice accompanied this wind and accumulated on everything including poles, lines, crossarms and trees.


The accumulated ice took a toll on Harmon Electric’s system and the calls of power outages started pouring in Sunday morning. By evening we knew that the majority of our system was without power. Mother Nature was tearing things down faster than we could get things fixed. Harmon Electric crews immediately began working when the first outage call was received, but it was soon evident that help would be needed from outside contractor crews. Final count showed approximately 300 broke poles in our Oklahoma territory and 100 broke poles in our Texas area. We had great help from 17 contractor crews representing 5 different states including Oklahoma, Texas, Alabama, Kansas and Louisiana. Our linemen along with these contractors have dangerous jobs. They spend many hours in the worst weather conditions away from their families and with very little down time until the last meter is on. We are proud of our linemen and our office staff and very thankful for the help from the other crews. Electricity was restored to the last residential meter on Tuesday, January


5th. We continue to repair broken poles, lines, crossarms and other damage and are still finding additional damage.


Thank you to the ones who brought food for the linemen; thank you to all the men that supplied equipment to get the trucks pulled to and from poles that needed to be repaired; thank you for all of the many, many offers of help. We are grateful for every act of kindness shown during this emergency. But most of all we would like to thank our awesome members for your patience, encouraging words, prayers and understanding. We have the best membership!


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