By Sheren Khalel and Megan Favignano
UPDATE: There were 380 Ameren customers in Webster Groves without power at the height of a power outage on Sunday evening, April 14, according to Ameren.
Liz Edwards, Webster University senior, said her apartment at Webster Village Apartments lost power for around an hour between 6:00 and 7:00 p.m. West and East Hall dorms were also affected by the outage, according to Nelson Saucedo, Webster University Public Safety.
Ameren said a tree hit an electric pole and caused the power outage. There were still 124 outages as of 11:37 a.m. in Webster Groves, according to Ameren’s updated outage map. The number has fluctuated over the course of the last 12 hours.
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Ameren’s outage map showed 80 power outages in the Webster Groves area as of 12:10 a.m. on Monday, April 15.
KSDK reported via Twitter that Ameren said a tree fell and hit a power pole. KSDK also reported that power will be back on by morning.
Ameren customers can visit Ameren’s website to report an outage or check the status of an outage.
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