Northfork Sparks & Flashes Supplement to Oklahoma Living March CONTENTS PAGE 2
How are Birds Safely Touching Electric Lines?
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Reflections of a Winter Storm
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Ask Your Co-op PAGE 5
Emerging Outdoor Lighting Technologies
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Easy Steps to Greater Efficiency
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Everyone’s Irish on St. Patrick’s Day!
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Convenience Using Our Drive-Thru Window and After- Hours Drop Box
17 New Year Brings Ice, Wide-spread Outages
Te new
year was barely two weeks old when Old Man Winter arrived. During the
night January 14, tempera- tures dropped and winter pre- cipitation began falling, resulting in members losing electric service in the wee hours of the morning January 15. Over the
next two days, NFEC employees would respond to 1,800 outages, replace 113 broken util- ity poles, and repair more than 12 miles of damaged electric lines. “Severe weather in
Oklahoma is not unusual,” says NFEC General Man- ager Scott Copeland. “But what is more constant than the unpredictability of the weather, is the patience and support of our members.
Tey continually under- stand the difficult condi- tions we are working in, and are patient as we dili- gently work to restore their electric service. We want them to know how much we appreciate that.” As much as NFEC
employees appreciate their members, they also ap- preciate their friends who come to help in severe weather. Tere were 84 indi-
Power lines and tree limbs wrapped
in ice caused widespread outages across NFEC’s service territory. For almost three days in mid-January NFEC crews, aided by contractor crews, responded to 1,800 outages and repaired more than 12 miles of damaged electric lines.
viduals, not counting NFEC employees, who were responding to the outages. Tey include Osmose Utilities Service, Power Line Construction, Anadarko Dozer, and R&R Powerline. See more storm photos on page 3.
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