Nearly 59,000 SWEPCO customers were without power as of 9 a.m. Monday. Â
SWEPCO crews started to restore power as they first got reports Sunday night. Additional crews were also called to support SWEPCO s restoration efforts. That includes Public Service of Oklahoma, tree crews, and line crews.
SWEPCO says if you plan to drive on the road, be mindful of utility workers. Distance yourself from them so they have the necessary space to work effectively. Also keep in mind, while crews are working to restore power, you may still experience an outage, even as the snow melts. SWEPCO spokesperson Karen Wissing says outages may still occur because âas the power lines go back up, they may come in contact with more tree branches which is really the main causes of all the outages we have now, [which] is tree lines coming in contact with power lines due to the weight of the snow.â