Power Outages and Damage Caused by High Winds

Residents receiving power from Evergy were without power Monday for 12 to 14 hours while crews worked to restore electricity.
The serious storm which several people described as a tornado blew through the area around 1:30 p.m. and produced hard rain and high winds. The area which received the most damage was along Highway P north of Jamesport. Residents along that road reported small buildings damaged or destroyed, trees blown down, and gardens and fields flattened.
In addition to the Cox and Wahlers properties, several out buildings were destroyed along with trees at the Greg and Lori Landes farm. Several trees and limbs were broken at the Lonnie Shrock farm near the intersection of P and 190.
Power lines and poles were down at the intersection of P and 190 north of Jamesport.
Jamesport residents and businesses were left without power starting around 1:30, and when it soon became evident that power wouldn’t be restored anytime soon business owners closed their doors for the day.
Our neighbors to the north in Iowa experienced a storm that set records.
A rare wind storm with power similar to an inland hurricane swept across the Midwest on Monday, blowing over trees, flipping vehicles, causing widespread property damage and leaving hundreds of thousands without power.
The storm known as a derecho lasted several hours as it tore across eastern Nebraska, Iowa and parts of Wisconsin and Illinois, had the wind speed of a major hurricane, and likely caused more widespread damage than a normal tornado.
A derecho is not quite a hurricane. It has no eye and its winds come across in a line. But the damage it does is spread over such a large area it is more like an inland hurricane than a quick more powerful tornado.