Airport open, but more storms for Missouri

ST. LOUIS, April 24 (UPI) -- Officials at Lambert-St. Louis Airport said they were back in business Sunday even as more heavy weather swept across Missouri.

Planes began arriving at Lambert late Saturday, but it will take several weeks to repair the damage caused by a tornado that blew out terminal windows at Lambert and caused significant damage throughout the St. Louis area Friday night.

"We're not going to have the prettiest airport, but we will have an operating airport," Airport Director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon told reporters it was "absolutely amazing" that no one was killed in the Good Friday storms, which blew the roof off a church in Ferguson where members had gathered to watch the movie "Passion of the Christ."

"To have this kind of damage, we're just glad no one was hurt," minister Stacy Garner told CNN. "Buildings can be replaced, but lives cannot."

Missouri and other areas of the Midwest were in for another blustery day Sunday. AccuWeather.com said tornadoes were a possibility in the Ohio Valley and southern Great Plains.