As a winter storm approaches Oklahoma City, officials are assuring residents they are ready to maintain safety, especially with the Thunder game set to change the downtown scene on Friday.”Just be careful if you have to get out there,” Michael Colbert, unit operations supervisor, emphasized the city’s readiness, said. “We been prepping for it since Tuesday. We got all of our snow equipment loaded prepped up. We started brining bridges that evening, and we been brining bridges and some of our snow routes in preparation for this.”City officials have committed to working 24 hours around the clock until the storm is over.”We have 500 people out in the service area, and our field crews are stationed and ready for the storm,” Sheradee Hurst, public relations manager for OG&E, said. >> Video Below: ‘I feel like we’re as prepared as we can be’: Gov. Stitt says ahead of winter storm in OklahomaShe also highlighted the risk of cars sliding into power poles, causing outages, and urged road safety.”Cars will slide off the roads and into poles, and that then causes outages for thousands of people, and that’s not attributed to the wind or ice or weather conditions,” Hurst said. Embark, the city’s public transportation service, is operating in “winter weather mode.”>> Download the KOCO 5 App | Subscribe to KOCO 5’s YouTube channel | Sign up for KOCO 5’s Morning Newsletter”What that means is we start to pull back some of our service. We don’t go into our neighborhoods like we normally do, last thing we want is for one of our busses to go into a neighborhood and get stuck,” Jesse Rush, public transportation director, said. Despite these adjustments, Rush assured that transportation for Thunder fans remains a priority.”For folks that are going to be weathering the weather tonight to go to the Thunder game, we’re still going to be there to provide our Thunder Shuttle to get you to the game and get you back home,” Rush said. OG&E has also provided a list of warming shelters across the metro area for those who may lose power or need a warm place to stay.KOCO 5 First Alert Weather Team, led by Chief Meteorologist Damon Lane, has been certified by WeatheRate as providing the Most Accurate Forecast in Oklahoma City for 13 consecutive years. This outstanding achievement underscores KOCO 5’s unwavering dedication to delivering reliable weather forecasts to viewers.

OKLAHOMA CITY —

As a winter storm approaches Oklahoma City, officials are assuring residents they are ready to maintain safety, especially with the Thunder game set to change the downtown scene on Friday.

“Just be careful if you have to get out there,” Michael Colbert, unit operations supervisor, emphasized the city’s readiness, said. “We been prepping for it since Tuesday. We got all of our snow equipment loaded prepped up. We started brining bridges that evening, and we been brining bridges and some of our snow routes in preparation for this.”

City officials have committed to working 24 hours around the clock until the storm is over.

“We have 500 people out in the service area, and our field crews are stationed and ready for the storm,” Sheradee Hurst, public relations manager for OG&E, said.

>> Video Below: ‘I feel like we’re as prepared as we can be’: Gov. Stitt says ahead of winter storm in Oklahoma

She also highlighted the risk of cars sliding into power poles, causing outages, and urged road safety.

“Cars will slide off the roads and into poles, and that then causes outages for thousands of people, and that’s not attributed to the wind or ice or weather conditions,” Hurst said.

Embark, the city’s public transportation service, is operating in “winter weather mode.”

>> Download the KOCO 5 App | Subscribe to KOCO 5’s YouTube channel | Sign up for KOCO 5’s Morning Newsletter

“What that means is we start to pull back some of our service. We don’t go into our neighborhoods like we normally do, last thing we want is for one of our busses to go into a neighborhood and get stuck,” Jesse Rush, public transportation director, said.

Despite these adjustments, Rush assured that transportation for Thunder fans remains a priority.

“For folks that are going to be weathering the weather tonight to go to the Thunder game, we’re still going to be there to provide our Thunder Shuttle to get you to the game and get you back home,” Rush said.

OG&E has also provided a list of warming shelters across the metro area for those who may lose power or need a warm place to stay.

KOCO 5 First Alert Weather Team, led by Chief Meteorologist Damon Lane, has been certified by WeatheRate as providing the Most Accurate Forecast in Oklahoma City for 13 consecutive years. This outstanding achievement underscores KOCO 5’s unwavering dedication to delivering reliable weather forecasts to viewers.