My mother in mid-town Tulsa

[Verb]

still has no power. It's been over a week. She's a 75 year old widow, and she's been sitting in the cold and dark for coming up on 8 days. She's having to use her limited income to eat every meal out. I'm starting to get seriously pissed off. Would it do me ANY good at all to call the power company? Are they making efforts to identify the elderly and get them some help?

I feel incredibly helpless, and guilty, sitting here in California with Christmas lights blazing and a kitchen full of food that I can cook any time I want while she suffers.

[im4okst]

Really isn't a lot you can do with the power company. Mid-town was hit the hardest and the trees are all over the place making it very difficult for the power company to get in there and fix the power. They are saying that 95% of Tulsa would have power back by Tuesday. I have a feeling that those 5% will be part of mid town and the north side of town.

I would suggest you have her move to the shelter at Asbury Methodist Church over there by Tulsa Union HS.

[BigBadBen]

Yeah, everything I have heard is that they are working around the clock, but all the fallen trees are causing hell on repairs.


I think she needs to take a trip to Cali for Christmas!

[Verb]

No way on earth would she leave that house till her power is back on. My sisters both have power now--one at Swan Lake and one at 36th and Florence--and she won't even go stay with them.

Last I heard, she had a live power line lying across her driveway.

She had three feet of Joe Creek flood water inside her house in 1984, and she says this ordeal has been worse.

[AnniePokely]

Jessica, i'm so sorry your mom is going through all that. Bless her little heart. No way one of your sisters can talk her into going with them, if only for a few nights?

[Verb]

Michelle, what your mom has gone through in the last week certainly puts my mom's troubles in perspective. My mom's pretty tough, and is blessed (and now I realize that is NOT something to be taken for granted) to be in excellent health. How's Vicki tonight?

[JimBob]

still has no power. It's been over a week. She's a 75 year old widow, and she's been sitting in the cold and dark for coming up on 8 days. She's having to use her limited income to eat every meal out. I'm starting to get seriously pissed off. Would it do me ANY good at all to call the power company? Are they making efforts to identify the elderly and get them some help?

I feel incredibly helpless, and guilty, sitting here in California with Christmas lights blazing and a kitchen full of food that I can cook any time I want while she suffers.

PSO is punishing mid-town for their failure to allow underground lines, and for all the crap they got from the tree-huggers about the trimming program. j/k

Seriously, this sounds like a job for your sisters since they're here.

[wickerbill]

If you saw the amount of devastation you would understand why it's taking so long. I'm sorry that she has gone without for so long, but in areas with a lot of trees there is a lot of work that usually needs to be done before they can flip the power back on. I live in Bixby and there are people by us that still don't have power too even though we got ours back last Tuesday. Our lines our buried and I think our problem was one of the main transmission lines so it was fixed earlier since that helps more people. The houses north of ours don't have buried lines and it has taken them a lot longer to get their power back up because there was a lot more damage to repair.

I can't drive anywhere in town without seeing a bunch of repair trucks so know that they are working on it. I would get your sisters to try and get her to stay with them until the power is back up. I don't see how they could possibly try and get individual houses back up because they have elderly people in them when there are so many houses still out of power. It's probably enough of a logistical nightmare without trying to prioritize houses on top of that.

[JimBob]

If you saw the amount of devastation you would understand why it's taking so long. I'm sorry that she has gone without for so long, but in areas with a lot of trees there is a lot of work that usually needs to be done before they can flip the power back on. I live in Bixby and there are people by us that still don't have power too even though we got ours back last Tuesday. Our lines our buried and I think our problem was one of the main transmission lines so it was fixed earlier since that helps more people. The houses north of ours don't have buried lines and it has taken them a lot longer to get their power back up because there was a lot more damage to repair.

I can't drive anywhere in town without seeing a bunch of repair trucks so know that they are working on it. I would get your sisters to try and get her to stay with them until the power is back up. I don't see how they could possibly try and get individual houses back up because they have elderly people in them when there are so many houses still out of power. It's probably enough of a logistical nightmare without trying to prioritize houses on top of that.

It's also complicated by houses that have lines torn from the meter. Our power came back on Wed., but one of the houses on the street didn't get power back on until this afternoon. Her tree fell and tore the line out of the meter. An electrician has to fix that (complicated by a parts shortage), and then PSO has to inspect/reconnect.

[wickerbill]

It's also complicated by houses that have lines torn from the meter. Our power came back on Wed., but one of the houses on the street didn't get power back on until this afternoon. Her tree fell and tore the line out of the meter. An electrician has to fix that (complicated by a parts shortage), and then PSO has to inspect/reconnect.

Yeah, if she had her meter torn from the house, then she better be on an electrician's waiting list or it will probably be next year before she has power again.

I saw an article earlier that PSO has about 300,000 customers in the Tulsa area and at one point last week, 245,000 of those customers didn't have power. It's crazy how widespread this problem was. My sister and a guy I work with are the only two people I know and have spoken to that never lost power this past week.

[Verb]

Yeah, if she had her meter torn from the house, then she better be on an electrician's waiting list or it will probably be next year before she has power again.



I hope someone would let her know if this was her problem--she certainly wouldn't be able to determine something like this herself.

[wickerbill]

I hope someone would let her know if this was her problem--she certainly wouldn't be able to determine something like this herself.

It should be pretty easy to visually tell if a branch fell on the power line going to her house and tore it out of the meter or pulled the meter from the side of her house. Maybe one of your sisters can go over there. Waiting around for PSO to come out to each individual house and inspect it will just add to her wait time if she does have a problem.

[jakeman]

Some friends down the road lost their meter. A big pine limb took out the line coming out of the meter into the house. It took them an extra two days to get power. They had to have an electrician come out and re-hook them to the pole.

I wonder how many folks like that, without power when their neighbors have power, there are out there?

[AnniePokely]

Any word on power Jessica? How's mom?

[GoPokes82sMom]

Some friends down the road lost their meter. A big pine limb took out the line coming out of the meter into the house. It took them an extra two days to get power. They had to have an electrician come out and re-hook them to the pole.

I wonder how many folks like that, without power when their neighbors have power, there are out there?

Same thing happened to my daughter, that dang pine tree has done this four times now. She is still without power and now a pipe burst and she doesn't have water. I can't get back there soon enough.

[Verb]

As of around 5:30 this afternoon, Grandma has power! She said "I put the thermostat on 70 degrees and tonight I'm sleeping warm!"

[legelegel]

As of around 5:30 this afternoon, Grandma has power! She said "I put the thermostat on 70 degrees and tonight I'm sleeping warm!"

:)

[MemphisPoke]

As of around 5:30 this afternoon, Grandma has power! She said "I put the thermostat on 70 degrees and tonight I'm sleeping warm!"


That has got to make you happy. Fantastic news.