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Victoria Preacely (left), Dshanti Preacely, 8 , and Sandrihia Dickerson, 15, all of Waukegan, stand next to a traffic light that was blown down by the storm Thursday night at Grand Avenue and County Street in Waukegan.
Victoria Preacely (left), Dshanti Preacely, 8 , and Sandrihia Dickerson, 15, all of Waukegan, stand next to a traffic light that was blown down by the storm Thursday night at Grand Avenue and County Street in Waukegan.
He and he his wife herded their other four children to safety as the storm blew through.
"In my life, I've never experienced anything like that except for seeing the aftermath happen to other people," Szekely said Friday.
Although he was without power Friday, along with more than 12,000 other ComEd customers in Lake County, Szekely started the daunting storm cleanup. Trees smashed two of his cars and demolished the children's playground in the yard. There was also a lot of tree debris, he said.
As of 3 p.m. Friday, 9,800 people in ComEd's northern region, which includes Lake County, were without power, according to a ComEd spokeswoman. A total of 145,000 people had power restored Friday, she said.
Comment: Let us suggest a reason, why instances of noctilucent clouds are intensifying.
What we suspect has been happening, based on our research thus far, is that the upper atmosphere is cooling because it is being loaded with comet dust, which shows up in the form of noctilucent clouds and other upper atmospheric formations.
Magnificent and mesmerizing noctilucent clouds (also called polar mesospheric clouds), were once considered to be rare. But now they are puzzling scientists with their recent dramatic changes. Apparently, the clouds are growing brighter, are seen more frequently, are visible at ever lower latitudes and are now appearing even during the day. If scientists were allowed to conduct honest interdisciplinary research, such changes wouldn't be a mystery.
They would be able to figure out that comet dust is electrically-charged which is causing the earth's rotation to slow marginally. The slowing of the rotation is reducing the magnetic field, opening earth to more dangerous cosmic radiation and stimulating more volcanism. The volcanism under the sea is heating the sea water which is heating the lower atmosphere and loading it with moisture.
The moisture hits the cooler upper atmosphere and contributes to a deadly mix that inevitably leads to an Ice Age, preceded for a short period by a rapid increase of greenhouse gases and "hot pockets" in the lower atmosphere, heavy rains, hail, snow, and floods.