power outage

[justme]

Heard a POP and lost power. Everyone is out and Com Ed says about 9pm restore time. Great. And they are raising rates.

[menace2society]

Can't find word on what actually happened.

[MRS. NORTHSIDER]

Heard a POP and lost power. Everyone is out and Com Ed says about 9pm restore time. Great. And they are raising rates.

We lost it around 3 but it was restored by 5.  They said about 2000 customers lost power in my area.  I found it really strange since there were no type of storms in the area.  My husband thought it might be because of the hot weather and everyone turning on their A/C units.

[justme]

I just called Com Ed and they said there is an underground issue. Now ETA for power is 9:30pm

Oh and we just came back on!

[berwynson]

As a kid, growing up on Harvey & 18th., each square block had one big distribution transformer located on a pole in the alley, at mid-block. Our bungalow had no 220, only 110 volts, which often measured 90 or less, in summertime, by the 1970s.

One big storm when I was around 10 or 12, lightning struck our transformer, and burned it out. Thus, our block was without power. I watched eagerly as a crew took down that big "can", surprising me by it's size when you saw it closer-up. They replaced it with a new one. Years later, and additional transformer was added on the pole at our alley fence, 2nd. house from 18th. St., and it was marked "Back-Fed".

Outages were very rare back then.   berwynson