Powerful storm leaves damage in Duncan

LAWTON, Okla. (KSWO) – Texoma residents are coping with the fallout and cleanup after highly effective storms moved throughout the world final evening.

Debris and structural damage could be seen round Duncan right this moment after a powerful storm system got here via Stephens County Tuesday morning.

But given the extent of the storms, many residents are questioning why they by no means heard sirens.

Duncan officers stated their sirens routinely go off when a twister warning is issued by the National Weather Service.

“Sirens didn’t sound last night within the city limits because the national weather service scientific findings determined that the weather system was not going to directly have an impact within city limits, the sirens did sound however at all 4 area lakes last night,” stated Jones.

Today some residents are nonetheless with out energy. The storm’s excessive winds broken energy poles, inflicting city-wide energy outages.

Jones hopes to have electrical energy totally restored by this night.

“We had broken poles on some of our main feeder lines that affected some of the city, those are being replaced right now, and we hope to have all power fully restored to all areas of the city,” she stated.

Red River Technology Center is among the buildings hit exhausting by the storm. The Southeast wing of the primary constructing suffered main structural damage. Fire crews went out at round 5 a.m. after sturdy winds eliminated components of the roof, inflicting a gasoline line to rupture and sparking a fireplace.

Superintendent Dennis Loafman stated they’re trying on the optimistic facet of issues.

“We’re very fortunate that the timing is when it was, it happened at night and our foremost concern is our students and our staff, no one was here so everyone is safe,” stated Loafman.

Classes have been canceled and almost 500 college students are out of faculty whereas they assess the damage.

“We’ll have an emergency board meeting to take care of things as quickly as we possibly can and hopefully we can restore classes as soon as possible,” he stated.

Loafman confirms lessons will likely be canceled once more for Wednesday.

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