Chicago left without power

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Chicago left without power

After Monday’s short and violent windstorm, Tuesday morning more than 350,000 people remained without power in the Chicago area.

The utility spokeswoman, Arlana Johnson said that the number of people left without power is the highest recorded in the last 13 years by Commonwealth Edison. Tuesday morning at 11 a.m 350,000 customers of the ComEd Company were still lacking power.  Tony Hernandez stated that it could “take several days” to repair the damages and restore power to their customers. The company called for help the crews from Missouri and Pennsylvania in order to be able to repair the extensive damages caused by the powerful windstorm which zapped power to 868,000 customers.

The northern suburbs were the hardest hit by the storm and as a result, over 190,000 people were out of power according to ComEd. In the city and the west suburbs only 53,000 people are still left without power. There were also 72,000 people in the farther western suburbs and other 30,000 in the south who didn’t have power late Tuesday morning. Hernandez said that around 900 crews will work all day Tuesday to repair the damage. Some of the Community Health Center facilities will be closed Tuesday because of the lack of power, but the residents will be able to find information about “how to cope with the high temperatures” by using the suburban village sites, according to the announcement of the Lake County Health Department.

The service of CTA was back to schedule by Tuesday morning. Only the bus No.172 that covered the University of Chicago/Kenwood route was rerouted near 53^rd and Ellis, because a tree was blocking the road.

On Monday around 250 flights were canceled on the O’Hare Airport while the Midway Airport canceled only some of the flights according to the City’s Department of Aviation. Monday night, because of the storm, the flights recorded delays of 45 to 60 minutes.

Chicago’s storm left behind more than 2,500 downed trees which were reported by the residents as emergencies to 311 and more than 350 tree emergencies were solved until 8 p.m on Monday.

There were also reported by the Chicago Department of Transportation 144 wires down and 70 poles damaged, but some of the crews worked all night Monday night to repair the street lights and the traffic signal outages.

Residents are advised by OEMC to be aware of the high temperatures and to make everything in their power to avoid head-related emergencies.

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