Scott County Ice Damage

Weighted limbs hang over a stop sign Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in Sikeston. (Kit Doyle)

Slick roads back up traffic in Benton. (Kit Doyle)

Broken trees line the entrance to the American Red Cross warming center Wednesday, January 28, 2009, at the Miner Baptist Church in Miner. (Kit Doyle)

Many utility poles snapped Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in Sikeston. (Kit Doyle)

Dennis Lowe saws downed tree limbs on Highway 61 Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in downtown Benton. (Kit Doyle)

Zeta Simms sews yo-yos, a type of border she created, while spending Wednesday, January 28, 2009, at the Chaffee Nutrition Center designated warming center. (Kit Doyle)

Utility crews work near Oran on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. (Kit Doyle)

Devohn Foulk and his mother Kim Foulk play the card game war while passing time Wednesday afternoon, January 28, 2009, at the Chaffee Nutrition Center. (Kit Doyle)

Downed tree limbs on Highway 61 Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in downtown Benton. (Kit Doyle)

Tristan Foulk, 6, colors Wednesday afternoon, January 28, 2009, while passing time at the Chaffee Nutrition Center, a designated warming center in Scott County. Foulk had been there with her family since 8 in the morning and they were planning to stay through the night. (Kit Doyle)

Wayne Isaac, who has been a Chaffee resident since 1941, eats lunch provided at the designated warming center Wednesday, January 28, 2009, at the Chaffee Nutrition Center. All of Chaffee was without power as of late Tuesday evening. (Kit Doyle)

Ice damage Wednesday in old town Sikeston. (Kit Doyle)

Ice damage in Oran on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. (Kit Doyle)

Dennis Lowe saws downed tree limbs on Highway 61 Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in downtown Benton. (Kit Doyle)

Downed utility poles along Highway 61 south of Benton on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. (Kit Doyle)

Utility crews clear iced limbs Wednesday near Oran. (Kit Doyle)

Latonya Hodge is happy that the only damage done to her property was the mailbox at her Oran home on Wednesday, January 28, 2009. A limb sits atop her car but didn't damage it. (Kit Doyle)

Mailbox B was the only one opened and void of ice Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in Benton. (Kit Doyle)

Dennis Lowe saws downed tree limbs on Highway 61 Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in downtown Benton. (Kit Doyle)

Downed tree limbs on Highway 61 Wednesday, January 28, 2009, in downtown Benton. (Kit Doyle)