(WBBM NEWSRADIO) - There are still 23,000 homes and businesses without electricity following outages after last night’s freezing rain in the north and northwest suburbs.
ComEd said that at the height of the outages, 212,000 homes and businesses were without electricity. Spokesman Tom Dominguez said 80% of them should be restored by Thursday night with the rest by Saturday night at the latest.
"We’re experiencing some high winds and that is kind of hampering efforts, because we have to be careful when we send bucket trucks up in the air when the wind is howling as hard as it is."
Dominguez said there are 1,700 crews out-many of them from out-of-state to help get people’s power back on. He asked that if anyone runs across a downed power line to call ComEd at 1-800-EDISON.
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