Tens of thousands in northwest Missouri and northeast Kansas woke up without power as heavy, wet snow hitting the region downed power lines.

Kansas City Power & Light reported at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday that just nearly 46,000 customers were without power.

The outages stretched throughout the utility’s service area from Emporia, Kan., to Sedalia, Mo., but the highest number of outages was in the Kansas City metro area.

At that time, there were no storm-related outages in the St Joseph service area.

BPU, which provides service in Wyandotte County on the Kansas side of the metro area was reporting about 7,600 customers without service.   Westar Energy reported 8,900 outages throughout its Kansas region, which includes pockets near Kansas City. Westar’s highest number of outages early Tuesday was in Greenwood and Douglas counties, and in the Wichita area.