Still no electricity in 450,000+ St. Louis homes

Even though Ameren has deployed 1500+ crews.  The ice coverage is pretty amazing here.  Just around the lake where I live the trees are so heavily covered that few are able to stand upright and the older, taller trees have significant limb damage.  I saw one house where a very large tree fell right across the driveway.  That would be a rude awakening.  The result of the tree damage is we probably won't have power for 4-5 days until the ice melts.  According to the power representative on the radio, as soon as they have one section of the grid repaired another tree falls and takes out a transformer, so it's a cat and mouse game.

We drove up to Springfield, IL today to visit family.  Aaah, power, hot water, wireless Internet...