DGreport.com » storms http://www.dgreport.com News and Views from Downers Grove Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:10:22 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Hammer time http://www.dgreport.com/index.php/2009/06/20/hammer-time/ http://www.dgreport.com/index.php/2009/06/20/hammer-time/#comments Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:44:25 +0000 Mark Thoman http://www.dgreport.com/?p=3031 Last night right before the car show was scheduled to start a huge blow ripped through DG, knocking down large branches, knocking over trees and taking out power. Those 70 mph winds and rain turned skies from day to night across a wide swath of the Chicago area. Police in Bolingbrook reported a tornado may have touched down shortly before 4 p.m. in the Green Valley Forest Preserve, a funnel cloud was spotted near Geneva, and a third tornado had possibly appeared near 119th Street and Naperville Road.

DG PW crews are out in force over the weekend working on clearing damage away from buildings, roads and driveways. Most of the debris clean-up will probably happen during normal weekday work schedules.

We missed most of the rainfall. Chicago had a record rainfall yesterday and had to open the Wilmette locks to discharge overflow directly into the lake. ComEd said some 186,000 customers were without service as of late Friday afternoon. Most, about 108,000, were in the north suburbs. Another 36,000 were without power in the south suburbs, 30,000 in Chicago and another 12,000 in the west suburbs.

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