Nearly half a million people are still without power. Last night only a third of flights were getting in and out of the city. At the St. Louis Lambert Airport a 60 foot section of Terminal D flew off the building and landed ontop of Interstate 70. Currently the only signs of the recent storm are the piles and piles of unclaimed luggage in the terminals. Right now Lambert Airport in St. Louis is under a boil order as a treatment plant has no power to it. So many stores are shut down. (The photo above: An offical checks on metal that blew from Lambert Field on to the eastbound lates of Interstate 70.)
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Lambert Field had resumed a pretty normal schedule by this morning, the only lingering signs of Wednesday night’s storm being the piles of unclaimed luggage and the boil water notice that made a cup of coffee hard to find.
All flights were running on or close to on time, and power had been restored throughout the airport, Lambert Director Kevin Dolliole said. Between 1,500 and 2,000 passengers’ flight plans were delayed or canceled because of the storm, he said.
"Had this occurred earlier in the day, the effects would have been much larger," Dolliole said.
Shortly after 7 p.m. Wednesday, the storm ripped off a 60-foot section of roof from the D concourse, which is used for security training and was unoccupied at the time. No one was injured, Lambert spokeswoman Shirley Walls said.
The airport lost power throughout most or all of the facility at about 7 p.m. Power in the East Terminal, where Southwest Airlines is located, came back on quickly. The flight tower was dark for about an hour, Dolliole said.
Airport officials used a generator to bring emergency power to the main terminal by 11 p.m. The airport was at full power by 12:15 a.m.
This morning, crowds of passengers who were unable to retrieve their luggage because of power outages the night before sorted through suitcases next to the luggage carousels.
Those same power outages also shut down nearby treatment pumps, forcing Missouri American Water to issue a precautionary boil water advisory for customers. That included Lambert Field, so the Starbucks was unable to make fresh coffee.
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