Weather Storm Season with a Storm Safety Kit
Oncor encourages Texans to make their own kits
DALLAS (Business Wire EON) April 3, 2008 --
Throughout the state, Texans are being hit with the high winds, rain,
lightning and hail associated with storm season. As part of its Lifetime
of Safety campaign, Oncor encourages all consumers to take safety
precautions now to protect themselves during these extreme conditions.
One way consumers can do this is to prepare a storm safety kit. Storm
Safety kits should include a combination of the following: flashlight,
bottled water, radio, pen and paper, extra batteries and a storm safety
card from www.oncor.com/safety.
Other than the card, most of these items can be found in hardware stores.
The storm safety card has safety tips that everyone should remember
during storm season. In addition, consumers can fill in their Retail
Electric Provider’s, that’s
the company who sends their electric bills, phone number and ESI ID
number, found on their electric bill. If an outage occurs, consumers
should call their REP and have their ESI ID number ready to make outage
reporting easier.
When downloaded from Oncor’s Web site, the
storm safety card prints out two to a letter-sized page. Oncor
encourages consumers to put one card in their storm safety kit and one
on their refrigerator, in their car, by the phone or anywhere else where
they and their whole family can be reminded of storm safety.
Storm safety kits can vary in price depending on which items are
included. A storm safety kit can be less expensive if items from around
the house are used. New and higher quality items can raise the cost of
the kit.
If battery-operated materials are used, extra batteries will need to be
added to the kit to keep those items running. Flashlights and radios are
often found in “crank”
form, meaning they are operated by use of a crank handle and do not
require batteries.
To see a sample of the storm safety kit, to download the storm safety
card or to find out more about Oncor’s
Lifetime of Safety campaign, visit www.oncor.com/safety.
Oncor is a regulated electric distribution and transmission business
that uses superior asset management skills to provide reliable
electricity delivery to consumers. Oncor operates the largest
distribution and transmission system in Texas, providing power to 3
million electric delivery points over more than 102,000 miles of
distribution and 14,000 miles of transmission lines. While Oncor is a
subsidiary of EFH, Oncor is a separate entity that reports to a separate
board that is comprised of a majority of independent directors.
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