Massive Blackout Continues in St. Louis...

Ameren Corp. officials said Monday morning 235,000 of its customers remain without power from last week's storms, including 185,000 in the metro St. Louis region. The majority of Ameren's customers should have power by Tuesday night, said Richard Mark, Ameren's senior vice president of energy delivery in Missouri. The remaining customers should have power sometime on Wednesday, Mark said at a press conference. Mild weather this past weekend allowed the utility company to restore power to about 330,000 customers, Ameren officials said. Nearly 600,000 customers were without power after a storm Wednesday night raked both sides of the Mississippi River -- causing the worst service outage in Ameren's history of more than 100 years. One of the hardest hit areas was Spanish Lake. Work crews compared the damage there to what they saw while helping clean up Hurricane Katrina. "That's where most of our work will be at the end," said Ron Zdellar, Ameren's vice president of energy delivery. St. Louis Blackouts