Ameren Illinois is reporting as of 9:30 AM that nearly 25,000 customers are still without power after storms ravished the state on Wednesday. Local company Shelby Electric is reporting 1,681 customers are still without power.  According to a statement from Shelby Electric's operations department, "We arer working with Ameren and PPI to restore power to our members.  Our outages our storm related."  The power company says they are working as quickly and safely as possible.  

Ameren Illinois says they have replaced more than 110 downed poles in Illinois and that pole replacement takes time, but the company is working to restore service as quickly as possible. Ameren reminds customers to treat any line as energized and report it immediately to 800.755.5000.

Multiple tornadoes were reported on the ground in Central Illinois and the National Weather Service is still doing damage surveys from the storms that went through on Wednesday.