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

A handful of incoming flights touched down at Lambert-St. Louis Airport Saturday night for the first time after the mighty tornado hit Friday night. Airport talker Jeff Lea said Sunday morning that outgoing flights had resumed and were escaping in season.

Airport mentor Rhonda Hamm-Niebruegge told correspondents the airport's goal was to reach 70% of operations Sunday, and "I think we're there."

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

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


Four carriers were creature relocated from C Concourse, which suffered the maximum damage, with about half its windows blown out. Of those four, AirTran Airways and Frontier Airlines were both at about 50% in their current home on B Concourse, and maneuvered 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 afternoon, more than 100 flights had departed from the airport, she said. On an average Sunday, about 230 flights quit, she said, and "we still have a agreeable part of the day to go."

The twister left back "an amazing track 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 trusted the airport could be open and receiving flights so presently. She said Saturday it could take a "couple of months" to fully repair the damage.

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

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

The tornado harmed 750 families approximate the airport, Gov. Jay Nixon said on Saturday. There were no fatalities reported.

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It's "absolutely extraordinary" that it tore through one airport and extremely populated zones and there were no fatalities, Nixon said. "We're talking property, we're no talking about loss of life for of this. That is nobody short of amazing."

Shelters were set up and other assistance was offered to the numerous families affected along the calamity, said Charlie Dooley, the St. Louis county administrative.

"The look in their eyes (shows that) they calculate their life has been completely demolished," said Dooley, urging volunteers to bring an end to ... and assist. "Folks, that is destructive."

Besides damage to home and the airport, the muscular winds likewise hit 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 many rumpus," said congregant Nancy Doggett.

They came up afterward from the cellar to see the dome smashed in the shrine. Two great Christian crosses remained intact despite the hurricane.

"To have this variety of damage, we're fair pleased no one was hurt," minister Stacy Garner said on Saturday. "Buildings tin be replaced, yet lives cannot."

In the city of Bridgeton, just northwest of the airport, Mayor Conrad Bowers had lofty applause for crisis workers, who he said behaved door-to-door quests after the storm 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 entire, 65 frameworks were rendered "totally uninhabitable," said Police Chief Donald Hood. More than 200 other homes were damaged, some severely, he said. Seven advertisement properties were destroyed and 35 sustained "substantial damage."

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

Officials said inspections of buildings will take several days and hauling 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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