I live outside of Jenks and 2 days after the storm hit we drove into town and everything seemed to be operating normally. The Reasor's was fully stocked, which surprised me.
This storm was so hit or miss. After living in Ohio and Indiana most of my life, I would definitely prefer a snow storm over an ice storm. Although, friends of mine in Indy said that they had 10-15" of snow today!!
A friend of our from Jenks visited every day earlier this week. She said that all businesses remained open and that they hadn't had a single glitch with their apartment's power.
Guess there are advantages to being so close to a power plant?
I live a little more than a mile from the power plant, and I have underground electrical service and I lost power for three days. Jenks north of 111th didn't seem to lose power, but almost all of Jenks south of 111th lost it for at least a day.
The damage in Jenks was not nearly as bad as it was further north.
Yeah, we are near 121st and Elwood and were without until about 8:30 Wed. morning.
Jenks is both closer to the power plant and lacking the density and in many instances the mature timber that Midtown Tulsa has. What's more, the newer Jenks subdivisions have underground wires. It would stand to reason that it suffers less than older areas of Tulsa.
Your friendly Jenks developers like Mike Wallace, Greg Simmons, and Bob David clear-cut all of their new developments and put lines underground.
They also trim perimeter trees at least 10 feet away from all above ground lines surrounding their developments.
There really is nothing to fall on the lines. The lines that are in place are mostly new too. They are more robust than the old poles and tees in most of Tulsa.