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Winter Storm enters as a Lamb, exits as a Lion!
600 members were off. At this time we had around 20 broken poles, numerous broken cross arms and our trucks were getting stuck on sloppy wet roads.
The area west of Canton had a lot of ice damage. One of the 3-phase wires is on the ground.
With last year’s ice storms fresh on our minds, we prepared for the worst as weathermen bom- barded us with freezing rain forecast for Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Cimarron C.E.O., Mark Snowden called for a Storm Mode Level 2 for Saturday and Sunday to make sure we had workers for the weekend.
On Friday we had no freezing rain and no out- ages. Saturday came with a small amount of pre- cipitation, but still no outages. Sunday morning, January 15th, we were not as lucky. The freezing rain began with the largest accumulations in the west part of our system. The Oakwood, Canton and Seiling areas were the hardest hit. At mid morning on Sunday, we had 150 members off. By noon the number grew to 400 off. By 4 PM
We knew our neighbors, Northwest- ern Electric Co-op in Woodward took the ma- jority of the freezing rain and they had 2/3 (7,100) of their mem- bers without electricity.
Even with all CEC
Truck stuck, waiting on a dozer.
crews and 16 contractor crews working in the pouring, freezing rain, our hopes to restore power to all members on Sunday faded as we learned that we had lost power to both of our Canton substations. As darkness set in on Sun- day night, we now had 1250 members without power and WFEC had been called in to restore electricity to the substations.
We worked through the night trying to back feed all of the lines we could from the Watonga and Fairview substations. (Continued on page 6)
February 2017
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