There's damage everywhere, and there's still no letup in the rain. Hours after a fast-moving storm packing winds over 70 m.p.h. turned skies from day to night across the Chicago area Thursday — damaging buildings, splitting trees, causing flooding, and bringing planes and trains to a halt — the rain continued to fall. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect until midnight, and a flash flood watch was in effect for much of the area through late Friday night. Occasional showers and thunderstorms will continue tonight, with heavy rainfall and damaging winds possible. Lows will be in the lower 70s. More showers and thunderstorms are likely on Friday, with highs in the lower 80s. No break in the wet conditions is forecast until Saturday. Power outages peaked at 9 p.m. when ComEd reported that 310,000 customers were without power in northern Illinois, spokesman Tom Stevens said. Hardest hit were the north suburbs where 162,500 customers were without electricity tonight. Another 71,500 were in the south suburbs, 62,000 in Chicago and 14,000 in the west suburbs. Stevens said some customers are expected to still be without power Friday, and some could be offline into the weekend. Several highways in the area were closed tonight due to high water, Illinois State Police said. The closures were the northbound and southbound lanes of the Edens Expressway at Winnetka Road, and Interstate Highway 90 westbound at Belmont Avenue. As of 10 p.m., both had been reopened. Thousands of Metra commuters were stranded aboard trains in the west and northwest suburbs tonight after power lines downed by powerful storms brought trains to a halt.

As of 8:30 p.m., delays were averaging more than 2 1/2 hours for all flights in and out of O'Hare International Airport. More than 500 flights have been canceled today
At Midway, delays were averaging 1 1/2 to 2 hours with some canceled flights. The deluge forced the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District to open locks on the North Shore Channel in Wilmette, allowing millions of gallons of raw and partially treated sewage to flow into Lake Michigan. Within the first hour after the first storms blew through, the Chicago Department of Streets and Sanitation received reports of 884 tree limbs blown into streets. Another 76 traffic lights were out in the city, 54 light poles were damaged, and some 75 electrical wires to city light poles were down -- which did not take into account utility lines. "It's a very severe storm and it's still moving through our service territory so these numbers are expected to change," Rader said earlier Thursday. From early reports, the worst-hit area appeared to be West Chicago. About 40 people were injured there when heavy winds forced the warehouse roof of Uptime Parts, a truck parts distributor, to collapse. Seven people were sent to Central DuPage Hospital with non life-threatening injuries, according to police. "All of a sudden the building started shaking and the ceiling started collapsing," said Jim Hrody, 36, an Uptime employee and a lieutenant with the Westchester Emergency Management Agency. "We were sitting in two inches of water. It sounded like a train and a jet plane crashing into the building. I grabbed as many people as I could and threw them in an office and the men's bathroom. We turned the file cabinets sideways and squatted down in between them." Police responded to a call from the one-story building at 358 Fenton Lane about 3:10 p.m., according to West Chicago Police Chief Bruce Malkin. The building is in an industrial complex with other one-story buildings. Pieces of the roof dangled from power lines on the property and a company delivery truck was destroyed by a caved-in awning.)

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