ComeEd crews have been deployed in McCook to look for which wires are live and which are not. Power lines were popping around the motel and there are reports of more downed power lines across the area. The entire place is ruined," said Rajan Patel, whose family owns the Skyline Motel. "I just got a phone call from the hotel saying, 'Hey Eddie get back here because the roof is blowing off,'" said resident Eddie Morales. "Power lines fell down and they were sparking everywhere. "Abrupt burst of wind, loud thunder, the whole room was shaking," said resident Ty Carr. The garage was blown apart, the roof above the first floor was torn away, and multiple power lines are down around the motel. The family-run Skyline Motel in McCook was heavily damaged by the storms, leaving multiple families searching for a new place to stay. The family-owned Skyline Motel in McCook will have to be rebuilt from the ground up after Wednesday afternoon's storms. The NWS will send surveyors out to those sites to assess the veracity of the reports and the strength of any tornadoes. Wednesday, according to the National Weather Service in Chicago, which they described as "touching the ground intermittently so far and is moving east."Ī total of eight tornadoes were reported, along with one report of a funnel cloud. A confirmed tornado was on the ground around 7 p.m. The NWS also said a tornado touched down near O'Hare. The National Weather Service confirmed multiple tornado touchdowns in Campton Hills, Countryside, Hodgkins and Huntley. While the storms were powerful, the speed of their movement and what appear to be short bursts of tornado touchdowns resulted in no reports of serious injuries and damage that was often concentrated in single neighborhoods or just one part of a town or village. CHICAGO (WLS) - Many are cleaning up after tornadoes and strong storms moved through the Chicago area Wednesday evening, sparking strings of warnings and producing multiple funnel clouds and confirmed touchdowns.
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