Tulsa Animal Hospital Remains Closed 6 Months After June Storm

The owner of a Tulsa veterinary hospital is still out of work six months after the Fathers’ Day storm devastated Green Country.

She finally got a roof on her clinic last month, and now, it’s just a waiting game to get the rest fixed.

Stacey Smith, the owner and veterinarian at the Brookside Animal Hospital, says she still can’t believe that one storm could do that much damage to her business.

She says she’s trying to be as patient as possible, but it gets harder to do that the more time goes on.

Her office has been closed since the storm blew through Green Country.

"I would stay up here late, working on paperwork, cases, painting walls,” said Smith. “I just put all kinds of hours and love and sweat and tears into this place. It's just very sad."

She has business insurance and is now waiting for all the insurance companies to take care of everything.

In the meantime, she’s grateful for other clinics and clients who have done what they can.

"We totally understand and support if they need something, if they need to take their pets to another vet, we get it, we understand,” said Smith. “We want them to be taken care of. We're very grateful to the vet clinics that have stepped up to help us. They work our patients in."

Clients like Ellen Wright used to drive in from miles away to see Dr. Smith for years and say she’s a wonderful vet.

"You can get ahold of them any time you wanted to, and they always had a good answer for you, or you came in,” said Wright. “Solved my problems many times now with three cats and a dog."

Wright is hoping things get back to normal soon.

"I had to go to the emergency clinic on a Saturday, and she was the one that euthanized my cat, but we were so good together,” said Wright. “We just all sat together, and she was so sweet, and we talked and just had a good time over a cat dying. But it went with me."

Smith hopes her patients won’t forget about her clinic and will come back when they reopen their doors.

"It can happen to anybody, I guess,” said Smith. “There's no preparing for it. Oklahoma's a cruel mistress. We love her, but she's a bit temperamental at times."

Smith says she isn’t sure when the clinic will open again, but she’s hoping that with the roof coming on last month, progress is being made in the right direction.

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