ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) – Ardmore emergency manager Amber Wilson says lightning strikes took out a tornado siren on Mary Niblack Road, and also damaged I-T equipment at City Hall.
“We had a lot of flooding issues, we had some street issues, we had some things damaged at the parks,” Wilson said.
She says heavy rain damaged Ardmore’s Regional, Whittington and Walker Parks.
“We had a culvert that washed out at Regional Park, and then we had several streets where the culverts were washed out and stuff so they had to do a lot of repair on some of our streets,” Wilson added.
Wilson says she’s been working closely with FEMA to help the city get reimbursed for the storm. The damages are estimated to cost three to four hundred thousand dollars.
“It’s not really improvements as its just to get things back restored to their previous state before the storm hit,” Wilson stated.
In addition to restoring city infrastructure, Wilson says the money will pay overtime for first responders and emergency service crews.
“We can get reimbursed for our overtime for our personnel that were called back in, like fire, police, our street personnel,” Wilson said.
With the Mary Niblack Road tornado siren now replaced, six of the seven projects are now complete, with only I-T repairs at City Hall left.
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