City, Emergency Crews Begin Cleanup From Damaging Storm In Wagoner County

City and emergency crews cleaned up storm damage left behind from Monday’s storms.

The Mayor of Wagoner says a few homes were damaged, but the big problem is power lines in the streets

The storm blew the front off of one building in downtown Wagoner.

Serenity Williams and Glenn Christopher were at Peeps Place, a bar in downtown Wagoner when the storm hit. “She was about to leave and the door just swung open,” said Glenn Christopher. “Almost pulled her out. Then I grabbed the door, I was trying to pull it shut, but I had to wait for it to swing back my way in order to grab it.”

The damaged building is just feet away from where Williams would have been walking to her parked car.

“I could’ve been on my way and gotten swooped up by it,” said Williams. “Just because the moment I was trying to walk to my car, that door flung wide open.”

Southwest of there, a few homes were damaged and downed power lines blocked the roads.

Wagoner leaders are urging people to be careful and stay out of the way of crews repairing the damage.

“Please just stay inside right now,” said Dalton Self, the Mayor of the City of Wagoner. “We don’t want any lookie-loos outside. We’re working extremely hard on getting these lines off the road and getting power restored.”

“Stay out of the high water,” said Matt Rose, the Public Information Officer for Wagoner County Emergency Management. “We’ve already had two water rescues [Monday] morning, just in Wagoner County alone, so turn around, don’t drown.”

Williams says she’s glad it wasn’t worse.

“Hopefully, nothing like this happens again,” said Williams. “Hopefully this just calms down and we just get cooler weather.”

Wagoner County Emergency Management says no injuries have been reported, and if you have any damage to report it to them.