Power Begins to Return in Maplewood, Brentwood

Update (Monday, 7:45 p.m.) —

Many power outages have been resolved in the Brentwood and Maplewood ZIP codes, but 199 residents remain without power, according to Ameren's outage map.

Update (Monday, 3:40 p.m.) —

Many residents in Brentwood and Maplewood remain without power on Monday after a storm knocked down trees and power lines.

Ameren reports that 725 homes are without power in the Brentwood ZIP code (63144) and 68 are without power in the Maplewood ZIP code (63143) as of 3:35 p.m. That's down from 1,500 total homes around 2 p.m.

No injuries have been reported in Brentwood or Maplewood, police officials said. 

All roads have been cleared in Maplewood and everything is mostly calm now, said Lt. Mark Griffin of the .

No major damage was reported in Brentwood. Brentwood police received six or eight calls about downed trees and wires, but most debris has been cleared, said Maj. Dan Fitzgerald of the .

Maplewood crews responded quickly to a severe storm that blew through the St. Louis area around 1 p.m. Scanner reports indicated multiple downed trees and power wires, which caused some roads to be blocked off.

The 2000 block of Bellevue Avenue in Maplewood was blocked off because of a tree that landed in two yards.

Libby Edwards said her son Stu Lynch was outside when the tree fell down. He described it to her as just like in a movie, with a wall of wind, a big crack and a giant branch off of a sycamore tree between the two houses falling down through the electrical wires. 

They called 911 and authorities taped off the area. The road is now open.

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