Flossmoor residents still cleaning up after weekend storms, flooding

Updated 3 hours ago
FLOSSMOOR, Ill. (WLS) -- The sunshine is a welcome site Monday after a holiday weekend super soaker.

Some suburbs are picking up more than eight inches of rain since Friday.

There was so much rain in Kane County, parts of a road and bridge were washed out. Scott Road is closed in Kaneville.

The Olympia Fields Country Club golf course has significant flooding. It's been closed since Friday and big trees down were down on the Flossmoor Golf Course too.

There are entire streets in Flossmoor that are still without power four days later. Neighbors said it wasn't until their mayor made a call that trucks started pulling up.



Generators are out in full force

"Friday, Saturday, Sunday, today' is Monday, so I can't even go to work today, right, because I gotta leave the generator running and go to work," Steve Ojode, who lives in Flossmoor, said.

Ojode said he had to go out and buy a generator, after he could not wait for ComEd to show up.

"Imagine if I had some medical equipment, like older people, people who have younger kids, right?" Ojode said. "Four days is really unacceptable to not have electricity."

He and about one hundred other homes have been without power since Friday afternoon when storms ripped through a Flossmoor neighborhood, some left with water filled basements.



"I was very concerned that that the power company didn't have more trucks here," Flossmoor resident Andrea Nelson said.

"About 60% of the village lost power on Friday afternoon as the first wave of storms moved in," Flossmoor Mayor Michelle Nelson said.

Neighbors said it wasn't until Flossmoor Mayor Nelson made a push to get resources that utility workers started coming. But even with all the damage, she said families found ways to support each other over the holiday.

"I also saw neighbors still getting together, because they had freezers full of food, so why not put it on a grill?" Nelson said.

As many of them wait to get the much-needed help



"I'm just begging one of them, please solve our problem, please, we need to go back to little like civilized human beings here," Ojode said.

Ojode said he's seen three different powerline companies out and about, including ComEd.

Those in need of support tin Flossmoor and reach out to info@flossmoor.org for support.

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