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(CNN) -- Flights resumed Sunday at the chief airport in St. Louis after a tornado struck, knocking out power, mincing skylights and bringing passengers scrambling for cover from falling debris.

A handful of incoming flights touched down at Lambert-St. Louis Airport Saturday night for the premier time after the mighty tornado hit Friday night. Airport lecturer Jeff Lea said Sunday morn namely outgoing flights had resumed and were scampering in season.

Airport director Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told journalists the airport's goal was to approach 70% of operations Sunday, and "I calculate we're there."

She said Southwest Airlines reported they are by 100% operation with no cancellations at the airport. Carriers above the airport's A Concourse were at about 80%, she said.

"We can't go home. We don't have homes"


Four carriers were creature relocated from C Concourse, which underwent the most damage,monster beats, with about half its windows beat out. Of those 4, AirTran Airways and Frontier Airlines were either at about 50% in their current home on B Concourse, and planned to be fully operational Monday.

On Monday, the airport's D Concourse will be opened to house American Airlines and Cape Air, Hamm-Niebruegge said.

As of Sunday p.m., more than 100 flights had left from the airfield, she said. On an mean Sunday, approximately 230 flights leave, she said, and "we still have a agreeable portion of the daytime to go."

The twister left after "an incredible trail of devastation," the National Weather Service said.

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Hamm-Niebruegge said that seeing at the damage Friday night, she not would have believed the airport could be open and receiving flights so presently. She said Saturday it could take a "couple of months" to entirely repair the damage.

"We think tomorrow is going to be a quite, very engaged day," she said Sunday afternoon.

Preliminary estimates show that a tornado packing winds among 111 and 165 miles per hour hit the airport, said Wes Browning, a king meteorologist for the weather service, Saturday.

The tornado damaged 750 homes near the airport, Gov. Jay Nixon said on Saturday. There were no fatalities reported.

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It's "absolutely unbelievable" that it tore through an airport and highly populated districts and there were no fatalities, Nixon said. "We're talking property, we're no talking about wastage of life for of this. That is nought short of amazing."

Shelters were set up and other aid was offered to the many families affected by the misadventure, said Charlie Dooley, the St. Louis county executive.

"The look for their eyes (shows that) they think their life has been entirely destroyed," said Dooley, urging volunteers to come out and help. "Folks, that is destructive."

Besides damage to home and the airport, the mighty winds also kick affairs and tore via the roof of a Ferguson chapel, where dozens had gathered on Good Friday to watch the film "Passion of the Jesus."

"We felt this vacuum, and then there was so much clamor," said congregant Nancy Doggett.

They came up afterward from the basement to discern the dome smashed in the shrine. Two massive Christian crosses remained intact antagonism the tornado.

"To have this kind of damage, we're just glad no one was impair," minister Stacy Garner said on Saturday. "Buildings can be replaced, but lives cannot."

In the city of Bridgeton, fair northwest of the airport, Mayor Conrad Bowers had lofty compliment for crisis laborers, who he said conducted door-to-door quests after the tempest hit. He said weather officials told him the tornado in Bridgeton was an EF-4 with winds of about 170 mph.

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In all, 65 structures were rendered "altogether uninhabitable," said Police Chief Donald Hood. More than 200 additional families were damaged, some severely, he said. Seven advertisement properties were broke and 35 sustained "actual damage."

Bowers recounted a story of a pair who went to their basement while the sirens sounded. The man told his wife he was going to go upstairs because a belt, he said, and came behind down to report, "There namely no upstairs."

Officials said inspections of structures will take several days and dragging off debris will take longer.
CNN's Phil Gast, Greg Botelho, Carly Costello, Marlena Baldacci, Taylor Ward and Greg Morrison contributed to this report.
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