Mid-Missouri residents clean up after storm

Several Sturgeon residents spent the day cleaning up tree limbs and debris from their front yards after a storm ripped through the area Monday night.

One Sturgeon resident walked out the front door to find their back porch roof in the front yard. The wind blew it off and over the house, dropping it in the front yard.

Sturgeon City crews were also out cleaning up tree limbs from pubic spaces.

Sturgeon lost power around 8:00 p.m. on Monday and crews restored it by 10:30 p.m.

Another resident said the wind snapped a large tree, destroying his carport and damaging a few other structures on his property.

“We noticed that the power went out and my girlfriend actually went over to look out the window, and whenever, she looked out the window, she said there was a huge tree down in the driveway. At that point, I got up and came outside and noticed we had trees down pretty much all over the yard and it had taken the power out to the shop and landed on a couple of the sheds and out buildings that we have,” James Benskin, a Sturgeon resident said.

Sturgeon is not the only Mid-Missouri town damaged in Monday night’s storm.

The Moberly fire department had part of its roof fly off, but there were no leaks or injuries.

Crews cut up trees blocking several roads in Audrain County. There were reports a tree fell on a house off Robinson Street in Mexico, and about thirty minutes north, ABC 17 News confirmed the historic courthouse in Monroe County was hit by lightning. It briefly knocked out the county’s phones and 911 system, forcing emergency crews to use back-up radios.