NAPERVILLE, Ill. (WLS) — Neighbors are serving to neighbors clean up after the strong EF-3 tornado whipped via Naperville, Woodridge, Darien, and Burr Ridge Sunday night.Naperville police kept watch all evening to ensure the area stays protected.
One space was decreased to rubble. Amazingly, even though there's damage to houses on both sides, those properties are nonetheless status. That’s an example of the random nature of this storm.
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The grandparents in the home were drowsing upstairs when the tornado hit late Sunday night. Firefighters were ready to rescue them buried underneath the rubble.
Amazingly, they survived. The National Weather Service says this was an EF3 tornado.
Throughout the Naperville subdivision there are numerous properties marked as uninhabitable and police remain on guard here until daylight when the cleanup will continue.
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The damage from this tornado will require a protracted and dear cleanup, however Naperville leaders say they’re simply grateful no lives had been misplaced.
“This has been a tragic day, undoubtedly for Naperville and for residents of this group, but it might have been so much worse,” Mayor Steve Chirico stated. “We’re a strong neighborhood. We’ll put in combination and we will be able to for sure come thru this.”
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Mayor Chirico additionally caution tornado victims to watch out for scammers and asking neighbors to keep looking out for every different.
The cleanup procedure in Woodridge is absolutely underway for the reason that group has stepped up.
At least one hundred properties have been damaged and plenty of spaces are nonetheless suffering from timber. Given the entire damage, it's remarkable no person used to be critically harm.
On Janes Avenue, there's so much work to be executed. Twelve-month-old Violet is likely one of the youngest tornado survivors. She and her oldsters rode out the storm in a laundry room in their house and not using a basement.
“She was once with us when our roof flew off and our home windows came in,” said tornado survivor Alexis Reeder. “And I’m sorry, I’m going to begin to cry. And she, and we had been OK. He jumped on best folks, and we hunkered down.”
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With houses torn aside, a neighborhood is coming together.
Brian Rock from the Elevated Pie Co. served unfastened pizzas in Darien, the usage of a picket hearth oven at the back of his truck…
“People are hungry,” Rock stated. “No one has energy. No one wants to open up their fridge. One gentleman said he tried to work his microwave off his generator, and it didn’t paintings.”
Thousands of people misplaced power in the space and ComEd hopes to have the lights back on Tuesday morning.
The Red Cross has opened a refuge for displaced residents at Thomas Jefferson Junior High School situated at 7200 Janes Avenue in Woodridge. Anyone who needs assistance can also name the 24-hour Red Cross hotline at 1-877-591-0747.
A 2nd tornado has been showed through NWS in Plainfield and rated EF-0. NWS officials mentioned it touched tracked southeast and lifted on the Mistwood Golf Course. The Plainfield tornado winds maxed out at eighty five miles in step with hour.
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