Buchanan County Power Outages

Evergy Battles Power Outage

Storm slamming northwest missouri- knocking power out for 21- thousand residents.

Some two thousand families going to bed tonight without power restored.

Here's kq2's kilee thomas with more áice picking natsá marcus sanchez might have to scrape ice off his frozen truck wednesday morning-but unlike 21,000 other buchanan country residents sot:marcus sanchez, st joseph resident- "when i woke up this morning, i saw the tree but i didn't have one problem."kitty corner from the sanchez home on pickett road is a fallen tree branch-dangling like a crystal chandelier over a powerline sot: sanchez-"i'm very lucky."

Richard fulton wasn't so lucky.

His family has been without power since 4pm tuesday...sot: richard fulton, st joseph resident- "well, there's no unmaintained trees by my house and we still have no power."

Evergy says they're working to get everyone back up and running by midnight wednesdaymeaning the fulton's could be without power for 32 hours sot: fulton- "it's cold, my kids are cold and they can't even tell me if i need to go to a hotel or how long it's going to take?"

áice scrapeásot: dan hegeman, evergy spokesperson- "in ice storms like this, we get a lot of small outages where we have to make a repair and we only get 2-3 people on.

In some storms, we can make repairs and get hundreds of people on."

Evergy says fallen tree branches like this one is part of the reason for the major power outage tuesday night.

Sot: hegeman- "we're getting a lot of tree damage.

The trees get ice on them, the limbs break or bend down into the line and it's causing problems right now.

We do an aggressive tree trimming program all year long to try and address that issue, but we still have trees that fall over and get into our power lines."

Overnight crews are working 16 hour shifts trying to turn the power back on.but for families like the fultons waiting.

Sot: fulton- "i'm upset and i'm mad, but at the same time- look around.

There's ice everywhere.

It's going to take a minute."

Reporting in st.

Joseph kilee news evergy says to stay ten feet away from any fallen power line.

To report a fallen power line- call 9-1-1 or evergy at 1-888-light-kc the ice not