Violent Storms in Chicago Cause Rush Hour Chaos
While the East is starting to warm back up, severe weather in Chicago paralyzed the evening commute. More than 265,000 ConEd customers are without power Thursday night. As the storms hit Chicago, Metra commuters were stranded on trains after power lines toppled. At midway and O'Hare more than 500 flights were canceled. On top of that, the deluge of rain caused the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to open locks on the North Shore allowing million of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage into Lake Michigan.
The culprit of all this is a stalled out front, which has caused most of the flooding. A number of locations are dealing with 6-day rainfall totals over 12 inches. Another stalled out front will cause thunderstorms to drench the area from Kansas to Lower Michigan Friday. photo credit: Sebastian White