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Local utilities ask customers to limit usage during historic cold

About 4-6 inches of snow has fallen in most of mid-Missouri since Sunday. We should be mostly dry on Tuesday, but roads are still slick and the epic cold will continue. It hit minus 8 on Tuesday morning, breaking the record for that date set in 1958.

The high temperature on Monday at Columbia Regional Airport was zero degrees, the first time since Jan. 6, 2014 we did not get above zero in a day.

Boone Electric is one of the local utilities asking customers to take it easy on power usage where they can, to avoid rolling blackouts like they are seeing in the Kansas City area.

Columbia Water and Light said on Monday it did not anticipate power supply issues.

Mizzou and most local school districts canceled in-person classes on Tuesday. All state offices are closed too.

More from The Associated Press:

Evergy is alerting customers in some Missouri cities that it will begin rolling power blackouts in response to overwhelming demand during record-setting low temperatures. The company announced Monday it will turn off electricity to blocks of customers for about 30 to 60 minutes and then rotate to other service areas. That came after the Southwest Power Pool, a multistate energy market-based in Little Rock, Arkansas, announced the blackouts were because of overwhelming demand caused by the frigid temperatures and wind chills. City utilities in Springfield and the city of Independence also announced rolling blackouts to their customers.

(This story was last updated at 10:07 a.m. Tuesday.)

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