statewide shelters to help storm victims

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Statewide shelters to help winter storm victims

12/29/2000 From Staff Reports

Numerous shelters set up

Emergency shelters have been set up in National Guard armories in Okemah, Perry, Durant, McAlester and Ardmore. Other shelters include the VFW Hall in Hugo, the First Baptist Church in Stigler, three churches in Wilburton, the Red Oak Senior Citizens Center, three churches in Arkoma, the First Baptist Church at Eufaula, the First Christian Church in Sulphur, the St. Paul Methodist Church in Muskogee, the Weleetka senior citizens center, the Irving Center in Ada, the Sallisaw First Christian Church and Sallisaw Outreach.

The Guard has supplied drinking water to Checotah, Okemah, Connersville, Eufaula, Stonewall, McAlester and Talihina, and delivered more than 500 cots and blankets to Pauls Valley, Hugo, Shawnee, Poteau and Stigler.

State, federal parks closed

If you’re headed to southeastern Oklahoma this weekend, don’t bother packing the camping gear. Most of the state parks and the Chickasaw National Recreation Area are closed due to the ice storm.

The only part of the Chickasaw recreation area that’s open is U.S. 177. Other roads within the park are blocked by fallen trees.

As for state parks, Beavers Bend Resort Park, Robbers Cave State Park and Lake Wister State Park have canceled reservations this weekend for cabin and lodge guests.

Fountainhead, Arrowhead, Heavener, Talimena and Boggy Depot state parks are also without electricity. Most of those parks also have no water because the pumps that supply the water systems are run by electricity.

Salt arrives in Tulsa

Tulsa street department officials were “starting to sweat a little” Thursday as the lots that usually hold mounds of salt for winter ice removal remained bare. But as promised, trucks arrived, much to the relief of Jim Jones and his frontloader. Jones is responsible for mixing the salt with sand at the city’s west yard on 23 Street.

Jones said Tulsa’s salt supplies were on back order after demands across a four-state area taxed suppliers who normally furnish it to Tulsa.

That’s when Streets Supervisor Lorenzo Price ordered 200 tons from Utah. “We had to pay a good price for it,” Jones said, “but at least we’re ready for the next winter blast.”

Jones said he and other workers are about ready for a break. They have been working around the clock, sometimes in 16-hour shifts, since Christmas Eve.

No bowl trip for band

Meanwhile, the winter blast brought a big disappointment to members of the Sapulpa High School marching band.

Their planned trip to the Alamo Bowl in San Antonio had to be canceled. The 190 members were to depart Wednesday in five chartered buses with two equipment trucks. The Big Blue Band was one of six invited to participate in marching and musical competition.

Boiling water: City and state officials are cautioning people who have just had their water restored to boil it before using. Michael Dean with the state Department of Environmental Quality said boiling water will help kill bacteria that may have developed while sitting in the pipes. Dean said residents should boil water for a least one day after water is restored.

-- robert waldrop (rmwj@soonernet.com), December 29, 2000

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-- robert waldrop (rmwj@soonernet.com), December 29, 2000.

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-- Humm, got some extra food (not to mention@foodgrinder.com), December 30, 2000.

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