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Nearly 100,000 people woke up without power Sunday morning after
severe storms swept through the Kansas City area overnight, downing trees and power lines. Some outages are expected to stretch into Monday amid potentially dangerous heat.
Widespread power outages were being reported across the Kansas City area after winds from the storms reached 70 mph and produced heavy lightning.
Kansas City Power & Light reported on Facebook that as many as 112,000 customers were without power at the height of the storm. Overnight, it assessed the total impact of the damage and called in all available crews to restore power.
By 8:30 a.m. Sunday, about 71,000 customers remained without power. KCP&L said it expected outages to continue into Monday.
"This will be a multi-day restoration," said Jeremy McNeive, manager of media communications for KCP&L.
"Right now it looks like the bulk of it seems to be downed wires and poles," he said. "We have around 180 linemen and contractors. We've reached out to neighboring for assistance so we expect to have more in the field here in the next few hours."
Comment: Less than a month ago an exceptional hailstorm hit Girona, Spain.