About 38,000 customers of the utility company Ameren are still without power, three days after strong storms and tornadoes struck the St. Louis area.

Most of the outages — nearly 37,000 — were on the Missouri side of the St. Louis region as of about 7:45 a.m. Monday.

Several tornadoes were reported in the metro St. Louis area Friday night, damaging hundreds of homes. No one was killed. We have tornado video from Maryland Heights (here) and St Charles County (here).

Ameren says it is more than 2,400 workers involved in the effort to restore power, including contract linemen brought in from five other states.

For the second time in two years, Lambert Airport in St. Louis is cleaning up after a storm caused significant damage to Missouri’s largest airport.

The storm caused extensive damage to two aircraft hangars, three out buildings and a parking lot. Repair costs have not been determined.

On April 22, 2011, a strong tornado hit Lambert, significantly damaging a terminal and knocking out dozens of windows. Total damage was $25 million.

Though one of the tornadoes on Friday struck the area around Lambert, it wasn’t clear if the latest damage was from a tornado or straight-line winds.

The damage will not stop Lambert from hosting the arrival of the high-tech Solar Impulse plane, scheduled to arrive Monday night.