LAWTON Okla. - The Lawton Indian Hospital is trying to recover from damaging winds that came with a severe storm Sunday night, leaving the hospital without air-conditioning and severely crippled in their computer systems.

The storm damaged a coil to a $200,000 cooler that provides air conditioning for the hospital. The power went off for a short time around 8:30.

The power outage affected all their medical records, charts, everything that held patients' information. The only way to overcome the glitch was to resort to an old filing system. A system that used colors to match up what kind of care a patient needed.

And with 55,000 files to pour through, the hospital has severely slowed down.

Rows and rows of thousands of files. Each one containing a patient's history. Despite this setback hospital officials remain optimistic.

"The staff knows a lot of the folks, they know what's going on with them," said hospital Chief Executive Officer Hickory Starr.

Even if the hospital could call all of the existing patients to let them know the hospital's system is down, he says that would not solve everything.

"We have a lot of folks that show up here. Some that have appointments and a lot that do not."

Then there are those who need refills on their prescriptions.

"And we can not do refills because we can not pull up that electronic chart."

Despite it all, most people remain pretty cheery.

"Generally they are. There is always some frustration but this is one of those situations that just happens."

Hospital officials expect the computer systems back online late Monday or early Tuesday morning.