Utility crews have nearly completed restoring power to homes and businesses in Oklahoma, where as many as 600,000 customers were blacked out by last week's storm. The number of customers in the cold and dark fell to fewer than 14,000 late Wednesday, with the majority of outages in the Oklahoma City area, utilities reported.Many workers who came in from more than a dozen states to help restore electricity were planning to begin returning home Thursday.
Oklahoma Gas & Electric, the state's largest electric utility, reported 9,401 customers without power, while Tulsa-based Public Service Company of Oklahoma reported 1,000 outages. About 3,500 customers of rural electric cooperatives and municipal electric systems remained without power.
OG&E spokesman Brian Alford on Wednesday predicted a "significant drop" in the number of customers without power. He said thousands of customers would remain without power because of damage to their meter bases, which is where power lines connect to the home.
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