Ameren says an equipment failure led to 1,318 electric customers being left in the dark early Tuesday morning. An Ameren official says the exact cause of the outage is still under investigation. They note repairs will still have to be made when the problem is located. Crews were able to restore power through manual switching. No additional outages are anticipated during the repair process. The outage impacted an area from Odin, east of Centralia, to the Kell and Cartter area. Two schools are closed Tuesday because of the outage. Kell Grade and Raccoon Grade School announced the closure when it was believed the outage would last for a longer period of time. The outage began at 4:30 Tuesday morning. Power came back on shortly after seven am. - http://goo.gl/91ZVx
