Lifetime of Safety - April 2008

Lifetime of Safety

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.

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