Power outages continue near Lake of the Ozarks

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

Hundreds of people were still without power Monday afternoon near the Lake of the Ozarks.

Storms caused a significant number of people to lose power earlier in the day, with more than 3,700 electricity customers in Columbia at one point being without power.

The outage map for the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives showed there were 238 Southwest Electric Co-op customers in Hickory County without power at around 1:30 p.m., while Morgan County saw 208 Co-Mo Electric Cooperative customers without power and Camden County had 83 households without power, nearly all of which were Southwest Electric consumers.

Benton County had 159 customers without power, nearly all of which were for Southwest Electric.

Ameren’s outage map showed there were 125 consumers in Gasconade County without power, while the AMEC map showed 97 Three Rivers Electric customers did not have power and 14 Crawford Electric customers were experiencing an outage.