Dowe: officials in lamar, missouri are looking to rebuild the city's airport following monday's strong storms. this is koam news at 10.

The storm damaged three airplanes and took down two hangers.

Koam's kate kelley takes a look at the damage and shares why locals are counting on the reconstruction.

Crop dusters take off at lamar's airport, against a backdrop of bent metal and caution tape---a site some are still getting used to.

"i was just kinda shocked at it, like 'wow.'

We have a couple friends that have planes in there and a couple of them were destroyed."

Officials believe straight line winds, hitting 70 miles per hour, are responsible for the destruction of the two hangers, but that's not stopping the city from moving forward.

"we're wanting to add some more t-hangers, add some more space and unfortunately this kinda moved up our planning a little bit, so we did have in our plans to add some more and we're gonna continue with that plan."

The city is currently waiting on an official estimate of damage costs, but, in the meantime, it hopes to tear down the leaning safety hazard.

"we're gonna take bids right now for the demo of the buildings.

We're gonna get that going hopefully very quickly.

We do have some repairs to do on the box hanger down at the end that we're going to get done as soon as possible so we can get those operational again."

Standup: while the damage here is extensive, the city is thankful that no one is hurt and looking forward to rebuilding...something locals are counting on.

"we have a lot of hobby flyers, a lot of farmers rely on us to spray their crops.

We have a couple people who have jets that actually use it for farm work too.

" in lamar, kate kelley, koam news.

Dowe: worsely says the damage looks like it could cost anywhere from 500-thousand dollars to a million dollars , but the insurance adjuster should have the official estimate next week.

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