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Power Outages

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

UPDATE: Ameren Says Nearly All Power Customers Restored

Wentzville and Lake Saint Louis were particularly hard-hit by this morning's outages.

UPDATE: Ken Martin of Ameren talked to Patch about this morning's outages. He said that a crew performing maintenance at the Point Prairie substation experienced an equipment malfunction. Ameren is still looking into the cause of the malfunction. Martin said that half of the customers had power restored by 8:15 a.m. and that at the time of this writing, 9:38 a.m., almost everyone was back up.   Original story: More than 28,000 customers in the 63366 area code and 9,700 in the 63366 area code in St. Charles County are without power on this cold January morning. The outages are affecting customers in St. Charles, St. Louis, Lincoln and Warren Counties. The Wentzville School District reported a power outage on their Facebook page before 8 a.m…

Barbara Dunnermann

11:35 pm on Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Wentzville School District was not the only one without power in Wentzville this morning. Most, if not all, of Wentzville was out for over an hour. But some how Wentzville was not mentioned   more ›

Monday, January 31, 2011

"Perfect Storm" Bears Down on Region

Prepare for "thunder snow" and possible power outages.

Emergency officials are planning for a half-inch to an inch of freezing rain and ice, topped by about a foot of snow as the perfect winter storm bears down on the St. Louis area from the west. “Whatever you get, it’s going to be in a large amount,” said Jim Kramper of the National Weather Service.  “We’re fairly confident this is a big storm.” Major problems are expected due to perfect storm conditions of a build-up of ice, a large amount of snow and dropping temperatures and possible power outages. St. Louis County and St. Louis officials gathered at the city’s Emergency Management planning area to brief the media Monday morning in a rare show of unity and concerted effort. “We wanted to let people know we are united and gathering …

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