The deluge of snow that was dumped on the area a dozen days ago left thousands of residents across mid-Missouri without power, some for as many as five days. Utilities KCP&L, Ameren and Central Missouri Electric Cooperative all had outages locally, and most of their customers were back on line within a couple of days at the most.
As someone who was without power for a day and a half, I can say it was frustrating and inconvenient. But Co-Mo Electric Cooperative, based in Tipton, was faced with 17,000 outages — 53 percent of its meters, according to Communications Manager John Agliata. Its outage lasted five days, two hours and 40 minutes from when the first member lost power the evening of Feb. 25 to when the last member was restored on March 2.
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