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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're joined for a few minutes here by opp the
Executive Shannon Anthony Shannon, good morning, Good morning, welcome, it's
good to have you here. What updates can you give
us on on the pace and the progress of the
restoration efforts.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, this morning we welcome more than three hundred mutual
aid resources that are coming from as far away as
Kentucky to help us continue to tackle the remaining outages
that we have from the blizzard. Yesterday overnight our crews
were able to bring down the remaining amount to actually
just under thirty three thousand, So as of five forty
(00:36):
five this morning, we have thirty two two hundred and
ninety remaining, meaning we've tackled more than seventy percent of
the outages that were reported.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, that's good. On the problem, of course, I guess
is that the remaining ones are the really tough ones.
So that's why everybody got the message that it'll be
a while, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We also had nearly two hundred and seventy poles break
completely in half or get damaged, which really put a
hamper on the restoration progress. But today we expect to
have several hundred replacement poles arrive. That will really help
speed up those restoration efforts. And especially with the sun
coming out, warmer temperatures and significantly lower wind speeds, that
(01:17):
will really help too.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No doubt. Did you have equipment that because of the conditions,
was unable to get where they needed to get.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Really it was about the safety of crewise going out
onto especially rural roads, with the wind making visibility very low.
Some roads were impassable, some roads were closed, and so
that really hampered efforts as far as the tree trucks
and the pole trucks getting able excuse me, getting able
(01:48):
to out there to really tackle those tough ones.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, I know, Jody said this was in the top
five all time in the history of OPPD. Was that one?
Last summer? Was that number one? We had like some
like two hundred thousand customers out Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I believe that the peak last summer we had two
hundred and twenty thousand out and last summer we had
nearly one thousand people in the field to help. This time,
with the crews that are coming in from other mutual
aid efforts, will have nearly six hundred out in the field.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What can you tell people who may not be familiar
or may not have had power outages and conditions like
this in a while about safety considerations on their property.
If there's damage involving.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Power lines, Always treat a downed line as if it
were live. Never assume that it's dead just because it's down.
Down power lines are incredibly dangerous. You should stay back
and make sure you report it immediately. And unless there
is a fire or any kind of immediate danger, we
(02:54):
want you to report that to OPPD.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right if but the big thing is don't touch them.
I mean you can, you don't have to, yes, okay,
because I know how many poles? Did you say?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
We're down around two hundred and seventy poles across the
entire district.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Good Lord, bless the trees. Yeah, it's a mess, yes, yeah,
plus trees. So is the estimate still late Monday for
some people.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That's what we're hearing today. We do have update calls
several times throughout the day from our field crews and
everyone who's out there assessing damage as the different troubleshooter
crews go through each outage, and we really expect a
majority to be restored before Monday. So that's just us
being conservative and making sure We're being realistic as possible
(03:42):
for people who may need to make other plans.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right. One more thing, shann chatting with Shannon Anthony from OPPD.
If there are people who are without power and have
not reported it, is it still useful for them to
do that? Or do you know about all the outages now?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Absolutely? If you don't report your out we don't know
about it. So you can report it online or you
can call one eight hundred five five four six seven
seven three, or if you have the OPBD Connected app,
you can do it for your app too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Five five four six seven seven three. Great, Shannon, thank you,
appreciate the info. Thank you, Happy Restoration Day. That's Shannon
Doherty's Shannon Doherty. Sorry, Shannon Anthony didn't watch an old No,
I haven't actually hit up my head. I guess Shannon
Ancony from opp because you did in the nineties. You're
(04:34):
on KA Baby's morning news. Yeah. It's stressful for all
of us. Yeah, so that is important. I think if
you have if you're dark and you I guess the messages,
don't assume that that they know about all of the outages.
It can't hurt to report it, and it's pretty easy
to do now. They were telling us it would be
Monday night, where we were, well, that's that was a
(04:56):
message that went to everybody, and we were thankful that.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think they do that because they don't want to
overpromise an underdeliver. They want to say, oh, we'll get
it for you by Monday. That that gives them four days. Okay,
then if yeah, there may be some and then of course,
well there's still some people in West Omaha whose power
from last summer just came on.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Remember that our agency, Yeah, I sure do
We're joined for a few minutes here by opp the
Executive Shannon Anthony Shannon, good morning, Good morning, welcome, it's
good to have you here. What updates can you give
us on on the pace and the progress of the
restoration efforts.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Well, this morning we welcome more than three hundred mutual
aid resources that are coming from as far away as
Kentucky to help us continue to tackle the remaining outages
that we have from the blizzard. Yesterday overnight our crews
were able to bring down the remaining amount to actually
just under thirty three thousand, So as of five forty
(00:36):
five this morning, we have thirty two two hundred and
ninety remaining, meaning we've tackled more than seventy percent of
the outages that were reported.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well, that's good. On the problem, of course, I guess
is that the remaining ones are the really tough ones.
So that's why everybody got the message that it'll be
a while, that's correct.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
We also had nearly two hundred and seventy poles break
completely in half or get damaged, which really put a
hamper on the restoration progress. But today we expect to
have several hundred replacement poles arrive. That will really help
speed up those restoration efforts. And especially with the sun
coming out, warmer temperatures and significantly lower wind speeds, that
(01:17):
will really help too.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
No doubt. Did you have equipment that because of the conditions,
was unable to get where they needed to get.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Really it was about the safety of crewise going out
onto especially rural roads, with the wind making visibility very low.
Some roads were impassable, some roads were closed, and so
that really hampered efforts as far as the tree trucks
and the pole trucks getting able excuse me, getting able
(01:48):
to out there to really tackle those tough ones.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yeah, I know, Jody said this was in the top
five all time in the history of OPPD. Was that one?
Last summer? Was that number one? We had like some
like two hundred thousand customers out Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
I believe that the peak last summer we had two
hundred and twenty thousand out and last summer we had
nearly one thousand people in the field to help. This time,
with the crews that are coming in from other mutual
aid efforts, will have nearly six hundred out in the field.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
What can you tell people who may not be familiar
or may not have had power outages and conditions like
this in a while about safety considerations on their property.
If there's damage involving.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Power lines, Always treat a downed line as if it
were live. Never assume that it's dead just because it's down.
Down power lines are incredibly dangerous. You should stay back
and make sure you report it immediately. And unless there
is a fire or any kind of immediate danger, we
(02:54):
want you to report that to OPPD.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
Right if but the big thing is don't touch them.
I mean you can, you don't have to, yes, okay,
because I know how many poles? Did you say?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
We're down around two hundred and seventy poles across the
entire district.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
Good Lord, bless the trees. Yeah, it's a mess, yes, yeah,
plus trees. So is the estimate still late Monday for
some people.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
That's what we're hearing today. We do have update calls
several times throughout the day from our field crews and
everyone who's out there assessing damage as the different troubleshooter
crews go through each outage, and we really expect a
majority to be restored before Monday. So that's just us
being conservative and making sure We're being realistic as possible
(03:42):
for people who may need to make other plans.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
Right. One more thing, shann chatting with Shannon Anthony from OPPD.
If there are people who are without power and have
not reported it, is it still useful for them to
do that? Or do you know about all the outages now?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Absolutely? If you don't report your out we don't know
about it. So you can report it online or you
can call one eight hundred five five four six seven
seven three, or if you have the OPBD Connected app,
you can do it for your app too.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
Five five four six seven seven three. Great, Shannon, thank you,
appreciate the info. Thank you, Happy Restoration Day. That's Shannon
Doherty's Shannon Doherty. Sorry, Shannon Anthony didn't watch an old No,
I haven't actually hit up my head. I guess Shannon
Ancony from opp because you did in the nineties. You're
(04:34):
on KA Baby's morning news. Yeah. It's stressful for all
of us. Yeah, so that is important. I think if
you have if you're dark and you I guess the messages,
don't assume that that they know about all of the outages.
It can't hurt to report it, and it's pretty easy
to do now. They were telling us it would be
Monday night, where we were, well, that's that was a
(04:56):
message that went to everybody, and we were thankful that.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I think they do that because they don't want to
overpromise an underdeliver. They want to say, oh, we'll get
it for you by Monday. That that gives them four days. Okay,
then if yeah, there may be some and then of course,
well there's still some people in West Omaha whose power
from last summer just came on.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Remember that our agency, Yeah, I sure do
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