Reports of 74 mile per hour winds and power outages in many parts of Sioux City that was the story very early Monday morning, and during the day, it was time to clean-up.

Traffic on Floyd Boulevard came to a halt due to debris in the road. MidAmerican Energy's website shows over 19,000 customers were without power in the Sioux City area.  

"Company-wide, we're looking at 36 to 70 hours for full restoration for all our customers," says Mark Reinders, of MidAmerican Energy.

According to Reinders, around 3,600 customers in Sioux City were still without Monday night, though he said most customers should have power restored by midnight. MidAmerican updates the number of homes without power on its website every ten minutes.

Just across town in Morningside, people told us the high winds felt like a tornado swept through the area. One man watched as his basketball hoop was plucked out of the ground, thrown into the air and dropped into his underground pool. Downed trees were also a problem on the city's east side for most of the day.

The clean-up also continued just across the South Dakota border in North Sioux City. Tree branches smashed the roof of a house on Wallace Avenue and destroyed the back deck. Piles of leaves and tree branches littered the yard. Diana McMillen lives in the house and says just last week, she got estimates on removing the tree that now lays on top of her house.

A few blocks away crews worked to remove a large tree branch on top of a garage on Victor Avenue. The homeowners say they heard the tree snap around 1:00 in the morning.