Lake Region Electric Cooperative reported early Friday that 5,427 of its 12,500 customers without power after the peak of the storm remained without power at 7:30 a.m. Friday.

All main lines were expected to be restored Friday, said Lake Region Chief Executive Officer Hamid Vahdatipour.

The majority of LREC customer affected by the storm are in Cherokee County. There were scattered power outages in Braggs and Camp Gruber area in Muskogee County, he said.

More customers may lose power as the ice melts from trees and power lines, causing the lines to touch each other or limbs that are bent below the lines rise up and contact the lines, Vahdatipour said.

LREC had 95 broken poles, but had 22 contractor crews on site trying to get power restored, with at least 76 additional workers helping in the effort, he said.

Any damage between the meter and the house or business is the responsibility of the member, he said. Those damages should be repaired by the member before power can be restored, he said.

About five or six trees will have to be removed from Honor Heights Park, said Parks and Recreation employee Richard Randall, as a group of employees surveyed the damage Friday.

“Most of it is just damage to limbs,” he said. “We got lucky this year. Basically, what we’ve got is a bunch of small stuff. Some of the stuff that fell off was weakened last year.”

A hackberry tree he estimated to be 45 feet tall was one targeted for removal. It was stuck between dogwood trees workers don’t want to damage, he said.

It was peeled all the way down on one side.

Because the land in the park was dry, it just bent, he said. The tree probably is 45 years old, Randall said.

The moisture from the ice and rain will be good for the ground in the park, he said.

Only minor damage to small limbs could be seen at Spaulding Park.

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