RECORD BREAKING SNOWFALL IN CHICAGO LEAVES THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER AFTER BLIZZARD
More than two days after a blizzard hit the Chicago area, about 6,100 homes and businesses are still without power.
ComEd said nearly 350,000 customers lost power in the winter storm Sunday night and Monday morning. While the vast majority of those outages have been fixed, several northwest suburbs still have hundreds of homes and businesses waiting for repairs.
As of 11:30 a.m., about 6,100 ComEd customers were still without power due to the storm.
More than 500 of those outages are in Des Plaines. The northwest suburbs took the brunt of the damage from the storm, leaving thousands of homes without power or heat for three nights in a row.
ComEd said crews have been focusing on the areas with the most outages first.
With nearly 350,000 homes and businesses losing power in the storm, ComEd called in help from utility companies in neighboring states to help with repairs. A total of about 1,000 crews have been working around the clock to restore power.
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Chicago’s two major airports have also mostly bounced back from storm-induced service issues. There were 11 cancellations reported at O’Hare International Airport about 4 p.m Wednesday, with delays averaging less than 15 minutes, according to the Chicago Department of Aviation. Three flights were canceled at Midway International Airport, where delays were also averaging less than 15 minutes.
The situation was much worse Monday afternoon, when 1,254 flights were canceled at O’Hare as of 3:50 p.m. with delays averaging 79 minutes, according to the aviation department. Midway International Airport was reporting 71 cancelations with delays averaging less than 15 minutes.
The end-of-Thanksgiving weekend blizzard proved to be the fifth-largest November snowfall in Chicago’s history, according to the National Weather Service. At O’Hare International Airport, 8.4 inches of snow fell from Sunday to Monday.
The largest two-day snowfall the city has seen in the month of November happened in 1895, when Chicago got a foot of snow from Nov. 25-26.
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