View of Chicago skyline from Montrose Harbor with waves crashing the shore.
High winds and high waves overnight from Wednesday to Thursday caused minor power problems. Arlington Heights firefighters responded to a snapped utility pole and power lines down, just south of Lake Arlington in the 1700 block of East Jonquil Terrace.
As of 5:30 a.m., only 3,100 customers ComEd customers in Chicagoland were without power. The outage affected up to 8,300 customers about midnight. Many of the higher winds and outages were closer to Lake Michigan. About 2,200 ComEd customers were without power in the City of Chicago. Several transformer fires or arcing wires were reported in several suburbs.
Waves crash the Lake Michigan Thursday morning just south of Foster Avenue Beach.
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Lakeshore Flood Warning
LAKESHORE HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL
317 AM CDT THU OCT 20 2011
LAKE IL-COOK-
317 AM CDT THU OCT 20 2011
…LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 4 PM CDT THIS
AFTERNOON…
* WAVES…WAVES 20 TO 25 FEET WILL SUBSIDE TO 15 TO 20 FEET THIS
MORNING AND TO LESS THAN 15 FEET BY LATE THIS AFTERNOON.
* IMPACTS…LARGE AND BATTERING WAVES WILL RESULT IN FLOODING OF
AREAS NEAR THE LAKE…LIKELY WORSE THAN WHAT WAS EXPERIENCED
WITH THE LATE SEPTEMBER STORM. WAVES COULD RESULT IN FLOODING
ALONG THE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE PORTIONS OF LAKE SHORE DRIVE IN
CHICAGO.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…
A LAKESHORE FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR
IMMINENT ALONG THE LAKE. RESIDENTS ON OR NEAR THE SHORE IN THE
WARNED AREA SHOULD BE ALERT FOR RISING WATER…AND TAKE
APPROPRIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.
Waves battering the beach north of Montrose Harbor — Montrose Beach and Foster Avenue Beach.
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