700-800 residents lost power in Ashland when utility poles went down Tuesday night.

"We had a tree actually right here, an old dead tree, that the wind took down and it just kind of - with this big conductor - it just had a domino effect and took out four poles on down the line," Boone Electric Co-op foreman Matt Kemna said.

Boone Electric Co-op crews began working on the downed lines at 3 a.m., and four-and-a-half hours later, things were getting back to normal.

"We backfed our circuits around and just isolated this strip. We've only got two people out right now," Kemna said.

Meanwhile, in Columbia, one resident woke up and found a tree piled on her car. Winds also blew a tree onto a power line in Huntsdale, knocking out power to 725 homes. It took an hour to return power to those homes.