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ComEd says all outages will be restored Friday, 80% will be restored today

Wednesday, Jul 17, 2024 - Posted by Isabel Miller

* Illinois was hit hard by storms this week. Block Club Chicago

A tornado hit the Near West Side and Downtown Monday, one of as many as a dozen twisters that wrecked trees and sent rooftop deck furniture flying, according to the National Weather Service.

Monday night’s storms saw multiple tornadoes reported throughout the area — including at both airports — before they swept into Northwest Indiana. Crews for the weather service are out inspecting 29 “paths of potential damage” due to tornadoes Tuesday, the agency said.

So far, the weather service has confirmed five tornadoes in the region, with one forming over the Near West side before traveling to “far western portions of the Loop,” the agency tweeted Tuesday. […]

Most of Monday’s tornados will likely be EF-0 or EF-1, the weaker classifications, but [Bill Snyder, a longtime WGN producer for retired meteorologist Tom Skilling] said the weather event was still “nothing to sneeze at”: Its winds were about as damaging as a category 1 hurricane.

* I spoke with ComEd Communications Manager Lauren Huffman this morning. As of 8:30 am Comed has restored 366,000 customers’ power following the Monday night storms. About 63,000 customers remain without power…

“We said earlier this week that about 80% of the outages, and originally there were 430,000 of them, would be restored today. We’re on track to meet that and then there’ll be a full restoration Friday,” ComEd Communications Manager Lauren Huffman said.

* WMBD

Ameren Illinois is still working on restoring power to thousands of customers across the state after a severe storm moved through the area on Monday.

According to the Ameren Outage Map, about 12,110 residents in Illinois remain without power Wednesday morning. That includes about 555 in Knox County, 2,024 in Marshall County, 1,313 in Peoria County, 404 in Putnam County and 3,421 in Tazewell County.

On Tuesday, Ameren projected that impacted customers would have power restored by 10 p.m. Wednesday.

* ABC 7 Chicago

Parts of I-55 remain shut down in south suburban Will County as crews work to clear power lines downed during Monday night’s severe weather.

In an update Wednesday morning, Illinois State Police and ComEd said the road could reopen between U.S. 6 and River Road in Channahon. early Thursday morning after clearing debris and vehicles. […]

The confirmed Channahon tornado also toppled two transmission towers. Numerous high-tension, high-power ComEd electricity lines were ripped down, now stretching across the roads, including I-55. […]

And an Exxonmobil Refinery is now without power, forced to flare some of its product as a precaution.

* Some photos of the damage


* More…

    * Tribune | As O’Hare sheltered in place during storm, passengers rode the winds out aboard planes: ‘It felt very vulnerable’: The O’Hare air traffic control tower evacuated during the storm, as did the FAA’s Terminal Radar Approach Control facility, known as TRACON, in Elgin. That led to a ground stop at O’Hare, causing all planes to stop moving on the tarmac at the major hub airport, a spokesman for United Airlines, O’Hare’s largest carrier, said in a statement. Once the FAA resumed staffing the facilities, airlines were able to move their planes again, United said. But until then, passengers like Jack were stuck aboard planes that were buffeted by the storm’s strong winds. For about 10 minutes, she watched as the wings blew up and down, and the “pretty strong” wind caused items outside the window to blow around.

    * AP | A dam fails after rain, wind, tornadoes pound the Midwest. The Chicago area is cleaning up: Water overtopped a dam near Nashville, Illinois, and first responders fanned out to ensure everyone escaped safely. There were no reports of injuries in the community of 3,000, southeast of St. Louis, but a woman was rescued after reporting that she was in water up to her waist in her home, said Alex Haglund, a spokesperson for the Washington County Emergency Management Agency.

    * Shaw Local | Kane County communities assessing damage following Monday night storms: The Campton Township Highway District is hosting a special post-storm pickup the week of July 29, Commissioner Sam Gallucci said Tuesday, following a second night of storms with heavy damage. “We had trees down two nights in a row,” Gallucci said. “Somewhere around 35 to 40 trees were down, across roads, and we’ve been busy with that, crews working on clearing trees from roads. And private property had a lot of trees down.”

    * Tribune | Warmer winters and a hotter Gulf of Mexico could be contributing to more tornadoes in Illinois, experts say: Studies have also found climate change may be affecting tornado patterns. Victor Gensini, a professor at Northern Illinois University, said climate change can affect the conditions necessary to create tornadoes. Tornadoes need instability –– warm moist air near the ground with cooler temperatures higher up –– and wind shear –– a change in wind speed or direction –– to form. Instability is more potent in the warm seasons, and shear is usually stronger in the winter.

       

7 Comments
  1. - lake county democrat - Wednesday, Jul 17, 24 @ 11:52 am:

    Forgive a bit of prepper advice: The three most important things you can have in your survial kit is 1) bottled water, 2) shelter - including something to keep you warm in winter if the heat goes out or cool in summer if it’s freezing, 3) the ability to communicate. Keep some bottled water in storage and consider buying a large battery for recharging phones and power a battery/usb powered fan oor light (also good purchases).


  2. - TheInvisibleMan - Wednesday, Jul 17, 24 @ 1:17 pm:

    Really threaded the needle the past few days.

    The Sunday morning microburst was unwarned, and within a second it went from not raining at all, to what sounded like a full strength firehose hitting all the windows. Looking out the window, I saw nothing but a sheet of what looked like white mist only 2 blocks south. They had some trees down and power outages, but no damage our lost power at the house.

    The Monday night storms, according to the maps the NWS released this morning, saw a weak EF-0 tornado just 500ft away this time to my north. But again, no damage or lost power at the house.


  3. - TJ - Wednesday, Jul 17, 24 @ 1:49 pm:

    I work for a company that has a load of branch locations throughout Central Illinois, and let me tell you’ve I’ve gotten probably at least a dozen separate notifications indicating power outages at assorted branch offices. We definitely got hit bad, but thankfully our area of McLean County was mostly spared.


  4. - Homebody - Wednesday, Jul 17, 24 @ 2:11 pm:

    With the huge “corruption aside” caveat, in terms of actual performance at their main job ComEd is generally pretty good in my experience when it comes to dealing with issues in the field.

    Compare with the mess every time Texas gets a storm.


  5. - Amalia - Wednesday, Jul 17, 24 @ 4:41 pm:

    Agree with Homebody. was just going to post something like that. Texas is in a sad situation because of lax planning and oversight. we are lucky.


  6. - Shytown - Wednesday, Jul 17, 24 @ 4:48 pm:

    Kudos to ComEd. They’ve done a great job not just staying on top of the outages, but a great job communicating as well.


  7. - G'Kar - Wednesday, Jul 17, 24 @ 10:09 pm:

    I live in Marshall County. The storm that came through Sunday night produced an F-1 tornado that destroyed 6 trailers. I lost part of a tree and we lost power from ~11pm to 4pm on Monday. Then the second storm hit on Monday and we lost the rest of the tree and the entire town had a lot of trees down. Fortunately, afaik, there were no injuries. Again we lost power around 8pm and it was not restored until 7 am Wednesday.


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