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Article: Power Outages Frustrate Midwesterners
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- December 7, 2006
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BELLEVILLE, Ill. - Ann Hill had already burned through $300 on hotels and restaurants since her house was plunged into darkness by a snowstorm, and she was on the verge of blowing her own fuse.
"I'm broke and fed up," Hill said Wednesday at a church shelter in the central Illinois city of Decatur, among the communities that suffered most from last week's storm. "I've had it. Enough is enough."
High winds overnight and into Thursday only made matters worse across the region: The number of Ameren Corp. customers without power in Missouri and Illinois was up to more than 52,000, the majority of those in Illinois, Ameren spokeswoman Susan Gallagher said.
Crews likely would be working into ...