KCP&L crews are working to restore service to some customers that lost power during Tuesday morning's storms.
The closed and dark convenience store as you drive into Sedalia is just one inconvenience from the storm.
"It was just like a whiteout in a snow storm, you couldn't see the buildings on either side, you couldn't see the cars on either side, nothing but sheets of rain," Julia Davis, who drove through the storm, said.
The rain came with strong winds that knocked out power to 4,000 residents.
"One woman was trapped in an elevator, firefighters had to come out because the power was down as she was in the elevator," Davis said.
When the storms came through, Larry Newbill II was on the phone with his dad describing the initial damage.
"I told him it's OK just a couple of tree limbs, and then soon I got off the phone with him I looked out and saw huge trees split in half, Newbill said.
It landed right on top of his garage. No one was injured in the area.
Tree branches fell on several buildings in Sedalia following strong storms Tuesday morning.
"They say we're really lucky, things could have gotten worse," Newbill said.
But you could say the Tallman Company of Sedalia sustained the worst damage. Powerful wind gusts blew away the loading dock's roof.
The force of the winds caught many people off guard, including the head of the county’s emergency management.
"Straight-line winds are going to hit where they hit and how they hit, and they're never the same, and so they hit a little differently this time and knocked some power down," David Clippert, director of Sedalia-Pettis County Emergency Management, said.
This included the Pettis County 911 call center. During the power outage, calls were automatically rerouted to the Sedalia Police Department.
On Tuesday evening, all eyes are on the sky and radar again.
"It's really sit down and waiting to see what's going to come and hopefully we can get the warnings out to enough people to let them know," Clippert said.
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Andres Gutierrez can be reached at andres.gutierrez@kshb.com
