Adam Scott Actor

They call it a "right" - a short, violent storm with sustained winds of straight line can exceed 100 kilometers per hour.

As a slap in the face, the law that affected the Chicago area Monday morning was over almost before it began. However, it could be days before all of the more than 860,000 homes and businesses lost power during the storm to see electricity restored, ComEd says.

With over half a million customers still without electricity in the humid 86-degree heat from 7 pm Monday, ComEd officials compared the abnormal climate campaign of World War II bombing and said his count more and more customers were without electricity at the peak of the storm is likely to exceed the 861,000 recorded during a snowstorm on March 8, 1998.

"It was like a blitzkrieg type storm," said ComEd senior vice president of customer operations Fidel Marquez.

The hurricane force winds - to reach a sustained 75 mph at Midway Airport and Crystal Lake a few minutes on each side of 8 am - hit the town and its surroundings during the morning rush hour, stopped the service in the CTA Yellow, Red and Purple Line L train and Metra Union Pacific trains and delays and cancellations in the two major airports.

You are prompted flood warnings along the lake shore and forced the closure of Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, while fallen trees crushed mobile homes in north suburban Beach Park "as a toy," the Beach Park Fire, Paul Tierney.

Caused by an improvement of rain-laden storm pushed online throughout the metropolitan area, the Law came walking distance of the expectorated records 87 mph winds recorded in Chicago on February 12, 1894, according to the Meteorological Service National Bill Nelson. It was an unusually severe example of a phenomenon that comes to town once a year, he said, adding that the name derives from the Spanish word 'straight' is pronounced 'deh-ray-cho.

Although there were no reports of anyone being killed by the storm on Monday, a city streets and Sanitation Department employee was seriously injured after she made contact with a downed power line in Pilsen.

In Palos Hills, seven people were injured when the wind toppled a tent of the festival were dismantling. Among the wounded were a deputy sheriff of Cook County, who was beaten in the head with a stick in the shop and two prisoners who was supervising the deputy.

In Joliet, rooms full of lawyers and the accused went dark when the Will County courthouse were without electricity.

On Monday afternoon, 480 ComEd crews - augmented by the writing teams of Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania - were working to clear fallen trees and power lines and restore electricity throughout the region.

With frustrated customers - many of whom were among the 400,000 who lost power during a storm just three weeks ago on 21 June - struggling to get answers from the utility of overwork helpline, Marquez urged patience, saying it may take "several days" to fix all the damage.

Hinsdale town Dave Cook, said his staff had been forced to be "Customer ComEd," adding, "This is happening too much, too often, and communication with ComEd is what has really been a problem."

The region most affected was the north, where 256,000 were without power at 7 pm Monday night, according to ComEd. In the western suburbs, 122,000 remained without electricity in Chicago and Maywood, 80,000 customers were affected yet. In the southern suburbs, 47,000 customers were still in the dark.