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By JJ Ryan
Feb 15, 2021
Southwest Power Pool has moved its Energy Emergency Alert to Level 3. SPP is the Regional Transmission Operator for the Oklahoma Municipal Power Authority according to and they are operating with reserves below the required minimum. As a result SPP may direct power suppliers to curtail energy use through controlled interruptions of service, like rolling outages.
Some OG&E customers are already experiencing outage which are already underway. OG&E says customers should be prepared for temporary outages at anytime. No warning will be given if your power is about to go out and there s no estimated time for the rolling outages to end. This is the first time that OG&E has ever had to do controlled service interruptions.
Dec 24, 2020
Dec 24, 2020
It was a white Christmas in 2009 for the Tulsa area, thanks to a Christmas Eve (into Christmas morning) blizzard across parts of eastern Oklahoma and northwest Arkansas.
Then-Gov. Brad Henry
According to the National Weather Service, Tulsa County recorded 6.4 inches, while Okmulgee County recorded 7.1 inches. Other northeast Oklahoma county totals include 6.3 inches (Ottawa); 4.2 inches (Muskogee); 3.5 inches (Washington).
The weather service defines a white Christmas as an inch of snowfall on the ground Christmas morning. Tulsa previously had white Christmases in 1966, 1983, 2000 and 2002.
2009 blizzard
Malik Althouse,9, and his mom Myrna Althouse sled down the Harweldenn Mansion hill Dec. 26, 2009. MIKE SIMONS/Tulsa World