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More than 30,000 WITHOUT POWER in Northern Illinois!!

 
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More than 30,000 WITHOUT POWER in Northern Illinois!!
Wind gusts and precipitation brought down power lines and left thousands without power throughout Illinois in the season's first winter storm.

More than 30,000 people are without power in northern Illinois as of 8 p.m., according to Arlana Johnson, a spokeswoman for Commonwealth Edison.

The western suburbs were the hardest hit, with more than 27,000 people without power, Johnson said.

ComEd prepared for power outages and significant damage to its system, putting out additional crews and equipment and by asking other utilities to be at the ready to assist.

The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the area until 3 a.m. Friday.

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Annapolis too. Storm or ALIENS

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They must be s****** bricks right now thinking the world might actually be ending
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I don't get it. I'm in the west suburbs and this is a pathetic storm. So what some wind there's not even ice or snow sticking to the pavement. Power dipped out for milliseconds at work probably grid switching.
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I am 30 South of Chicago and I am obviously on here now, so.... Oh crap..... What the ....ahhh
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I don't get it. I'm in the west suburbs and this is a pathetic storm. So what some wind there's not even ice or snow sticking to the pavement. Power dipped out for milliseconds at work probably grid switching.
 Quoting: krosty


Right? It's not that bad, we have dealt with WAY worse than this many times. Why all the power outages. Someone is f'ing with us. Maybe TPTB want people to panic??? damned
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12/21/2012 12:23 AM
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I am 5 minutes from Wis/Illinois border in Illinois and we still have the power...let's hope it stays that way!
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I am 5 minutes from Wis/Illinois border in Illinois and we still have the power...let's hope it stays that way!
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Well, you rock. I am your opposite- I am 5 minutes from the Wisconsin Illinois border but on the wisconsin side. LOL.
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12/21/2012 12:43 AM
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Two summers ago, something like 800,000 people lost power from a storm in the middle of July. I was living there at the time and it was not fun. We didn't have power for nearly 5 days.
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Sorry to hear this. We are in central Illinois. So far everything here is okay. We are getting some snow. Our worst weather was earlier today with thunderstorms and high winds. I hope everyone can stay warm. <3
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30,000 people...Did the power go out at Wal Mart?
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right by NIU here, power has been on all day. This storm wasn't that bad at all.
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I'm in a western suburb of Chicago. There's a half inch of snow on the ground right now. sleeping
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geesus crist americans paranoid about everything! we have almost 4 feet of snow over here st-jérome(québec)canada we are used to big snow storm! and it's snowing for almost 2 days in a row over here..

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Sorry to hear this. We are in central Illinois. So far everything here is okay. We are getting some snow. Our worst weather was earlier today with thunderstorms and high winds. I hope everyone can stay warm. <3
 Quoting: Sherrigirl2012


In Peoria... all's fine here too!
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geesus crist americans paranoid about everything! we have almost 4 feet of snow over here st-jérome(québec)canada we are used to big snow storm! and it's snowing for almost 2 days in a row over here..

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 Quoting: nosheeples 15684211


It's nice of Queen Elizabeth to let you Cannucks play on her land.....with her snow. I guess as long as you renters pay her tax, you'll get to squat on her land.
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Just an Apocalypse update...no Zombies have been seen in Northern IL USA...YET.

No problems with, power, Internet, or cable.
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They must be s****** bricks right now thinking the world might actually be ending
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I do that every time GLP goes down...uhoh
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Annapolis too. Storm or ALIENS

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Heres a video I ran into of tonights Annapolis Power Failure


[link to www.youtube.com]
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The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for the area until 3 am Friday.
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explosion
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Annapolis too. Storm or ALIENS

ancientaliens
 Quoting: WISC


Heres a video I ran into of tonights Annapolis Power Failure


[link to www.youtube.com]
 Quoting: SnowgooseBob


I saw that when I was a kid. Scared the shit out of me seeing those colors in the sky.
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In Annapolis we have 50,000 some people without power right now
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I'm in a western suburb of Chicago. There's a half inch of snow on the ground right now. sleeping
 Quoting: Anonymous Coward 15916759


4:08 a.m. and it is CRAZY WINDY & SUPER LOUD from all this wind blowing about! I'm also here in the West Suburbs... We do Still have Power though! :) Thankfully!

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I am in the quad cities area stranded right now. I live in a small town called Bishop Hill and I am stuck in Annawan at a gas station.

Every route home is blocked either with a jack knifed truck, drifts in the middle of the road up to my waist, or littered with wrecked cars. At least I have an excuse to call off work on 12/21/12.

I just hope I make it home before noon. The time now is 4:18am and I pulled in here at 10pm last night, after getting off work at 7pm on 12/20.
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Power Outage in USA on Friday, 21 December, 2012 at 09:27 (09:27 AM) UTC.

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The lights went out in the Annapolis area Thursday night as BG&E lost two main feeder lines, according to a BG&E spokesperson. As a result, some 50,000 customers lost power at around 9 p.m. The areas affected were the city of Annapolis, Westgate and Cedar Park. BG&E has crews investigating the cause of the the incident but as of 10:45 p.m., had not determined what caused the problem. BG&E did not make an estimated time of restoration of power. The feeder lines that failed feed several substations in the Annapolis area, according to the BG&E spokesperson, who said that it is possible that when the power failed, the substations also went offline. Because some equipment in the substations makes what sounds like an explosion when the large fuses blow, residents may have heard the noise when fuses blew, which also causes light as well as noise, the spokesperson said.
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Power Outage in USA on Friday, 21 December, 2012 at 04:02 (04:02 AM) UTC.

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About 54,700 customers throughout the state lost power Thursday, Alabama Power officials said. About 10,800 customers were still without power as of 6 p.m. Of that number, 4,300 customers in Mobile were still without power Thursday night. Alabama Power officials said they planned to restore service to most customers Thursday evening and would work through the night in the hardest-hit areas.


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 Quoting: SeaPunk


That video was fucking annoying. Bitches sound hot, but so annoying





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