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(Galatians 4:16)

New winter storm approaches weary Plains

OKLAHOMA CITY-Lisa Wofford had just moved out of her apartment and was planning to move her family into a house when a winter storm knocked a power pole onto the new digs, preventing her from closing on it.By Friday, the newly homeless Wofford was on her fifth day at an American Red Cross shelter, and an approaching snowstorm cast even more uncertainty on her future."I'm praying for no snow.I don't want to be here any longer," Wofford said before starting in on her lunch of pasta and green beans."I've slept, like, seven hours since Monday.I'm running on faith."The second wintry blast could complicate efforts to restore power to the more than 280,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri still blacked out after the first storm put a million customers in the dark at its height this week.That storm, which coated much of the Plains in ice before moving dumping snow on the Northeast, has killed at least 38 people, mostly in traffic accidents. It has been blamed for 23 deaths in Oklahoma alone.The next storm was predicted to bring 2 to 6 inches of snow to parts of Kansas and Oklahoma, said Ken Harding, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.The service issued winter weather watches for the northwest two-thirds of Oklahoma from Friday afternoon through Saturday morning. By late Friday afternoon, snow was already falling on the outskirts of Oklahoma City.An Xcel Energy serviceman working to restore power in an Oklahoma City neighborhood peppered by toppled trees said Friday that he expected the new storm to hamper recovery efforts, but not create massive new power failures."All this kind of work is safety-based, so any time you get another weather aspect, then there goes another safety factor," said Scott Falkner, of Clovis, N.M.Weather Service meteorologist Pete Snyder agreed with that assessment."For crews that are out there trying to restore power, it'd be more of a headache," Snyder said.

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