Clean-up continues after strong weekend storms roll through Chicagoland, microburst confirmed in Mount Prospect
As of just before noon Monday, ComEd reported 485 active outages and 5,225 customers affected, according to its outage map, which is updated approximately every 15 minutes.
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ComEd said more than 215,000 customers were impacted by two severe storms that hit the northern part of the state Saturday into Sunday, with the hardest-hit areas including Crystal Lake, DeKalb, Joliet, Mount Prospect, Rockford and Skokie.
Microburst confirmed in Mount Prospect
The National Weather Service has confirmed that a microburst struck the 700 block of Huntington Commons Road in northwest suburban Mount Prospect just before 5 p.m. Saturday.
Strong winds up to 70 miles per hour tore the roof off a four-story apartment building, leaving nothing but exposed sky through the top-floor windows.
A small army of workers had descended on the neighborhood by Monday to help clean up.
'It's totaled,' Marcin Beliczynski, a storm damage victim, said. 'It's heartbreaking, you know? People don't have houses. It's terrible.'
Dramatic video from the Citizen app showed the back side of the building with extensive damage and debris scattered all over the ground.
'We did have a lot of calls in the area of powerlines down,' Tom Wang, Mount Prospect Fire Deputy Chief, said Saturday. 'You can say a quick microburst came through and took down a lot of powerlines and took a roof off.'
WGN-TV has been told the building has about 75 units, with just over 300 people now displaced by the weekend storms. They're getting help from friends, family and the American Red Cross.
No injuries were reported from the microburst.
Flooding in Cicero
Meanwhile, the storms dropped heavy rain that triggered flash flooding in west suburban Cicero.
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High water levels accumulated overnight Saturday into Sunday around 37th Street and South Austin Boulevard, where multiple cars were stranded, though a lot of the water had receded by Sunday morning.
Several homeowners in the area told WGN-TV their basements were flooded, some saying the water reached their doors. Residents were up early Sunday morning cleaning up debris, including leaves and tree branches.
The fire department was also in the area early Sunday morning. Fire personnel told WGN they responded as a precaution due to a 911 call reporting a gas smell, but they had left by later Sunday morning.
Some big rain totals were been recorded overnight Saturday into Sunday around Chicagoland.
The storms also caused cancellations and delays at O'Hare International Airport. The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop for O'Hare on Saturday afternoon, which lasted about an hour, and a ground delay remained in effect Sunday morning at O'Hare.
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More scattered showers and potentially heavy downpours are predicted for Monday in Chicagoland, especially toward the evening hours, then conditions are expected to become drier and cooler for the latter part of the week.
Visit the WGN Weather Page for updated forecast details.
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