Ameren restores power in Cape following afternoon outage

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

After about four hours of relative darkness, power was restored to almost all of the more than 1,500 Ameren Missouri customers in the Cape Girardeau area who were without power Tuesday evening. The National Weather Service said temperatures were in excess of 95 degrees with a heat index of 111 degrees.

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