DELTA, Mo. — Wednesday night's severe weather has left many Delta residents without power, and some with damage to structures, including businesses and homes.

Some residents only had light tree debris to clean up after the storm.

Delta Fire Protection District Chief Alvin Frank said Delta has major damage in sections, and that the city was likely hit by a tornado Wednesday night.

"If you don't need to be in Delta, don't come in Delta. It's kind of like flooded roads. Turn around — you don't need to be there, turn around," Frank said.

Other structures in Delta sustained damage as well.

Frank explained that volunteers and first responders will be out working, which means drivers should be careful if they do have to make their way through the area.

A few electric companies are also working to repair outages in the area. Frank is hopeful the outages in Delta will be resolved in a few days, but said the weather could affect those plans.

Many were without power after Wednesday's storms.

While he urges drivers not to drive through the area unless necessary, he encourages those who want to come and volunteer to help with cleanup efforts.

"If you know someone in Delta or in the area that you, if you'd like to volunteer to help clean up, call them, ask them," Frank said. "We are setting a volunteer group up at the FEMA building. You can go by there, talk to them and they will assign you a location."

Some in Delta did not have a lot of damage. Darlene Kelly has lived in Delta since 2009, and she was thankful there was not a lot of cleanup that needed to be done on her property.

"We just been picking up the yard, cleaning up the limbs and pretty well watching all the Ameren [power company], and all the workers coming in here... that are trying to restore the power here," Kelly said.

Crews were seen working to restore power.

Though she is glad to be safe and not to have sustained damage to her property, she worries about those who did have damaged homes and buildings.

"It, you know, kind of really made you feel real sad because... we're not a very big community and everything," Kelly said. "And for it to take out, you know, the few little businesses or, you know, the houses that it did was, you know, quite saddening."

Kelly did share her concerns about possible flooding over the next couple of days.

"A block up, there will be, you know, water that is running over the road and everything. And then the roads going out here about a mile up, they'll flood," Kelly said.

Kyleigh Graviett's grandparents' shed was destroyed in the weather. Mikayla Sandford, her best friend, came by to help with cleanup efforts.

Graviett's grandparents' shed was damaged during the bad weather.

"I heard from them back right after the storm and then when I saw them it was just like a huge like relief that everybody was OK. I mean yes, there may be structural damage to the house and the shop, but that's all replaceable," Graviett said.

"I was lucky enough that I was in a place where the storm didn't really hit too hard, you know, other than a little wind and rain, and I'm able bodied. I'm able to get out here and help and, you know, that's more than some people can say," said Sandford.