Power Restoration A "Multiday" Event

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Bad news for those ComEd customers left without power after last night's storms: restoring power may take several days. According to ComEd executive vice president Anne Pramaggiore, "Given the magnitude of the damage ... we do expect this to be a multiday restoration effort." Ouch. According to ComEd, as of 11 a.m., over 220,000 customers were still without power, roughly half of those in Chicago. Almost half a million customers experienced outages since the storms hit.

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This one is so bad that the automated ComEd system won't even give an estimated restoration time.

Has anyone gotten any specific details from them about DuPage county?

It was odd looking West over the city last night...very dark, with strange bright spots that I initially thought were fires, but were just areas that HAD power, in the darkness.

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