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Storms wallop the Illinois Valley on Tuesday · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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Speaker 1: Storms walloped the Illinois Valley on Tuesday. Written by Tom
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Speaker 1: Collins and Matthias Werner. This article is being read by
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Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. Fierce storms
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Speaker 1: pounded the Illinois Valley area Tuesday morning, causing blackouts and
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Speaker 1: littering the area with fallen tree limbs. At ten fifteen am,
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Speaker 1: Peru Mayor Ken Kolowski reported a power outage affecting about
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Speaker 1: sixty customers in Peru. There are also some trees down
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Speaker 1: in branches. Kleff said teams are working on everything. Among
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Speaker 1: the debris was a tree that blocked the intersection of
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Speaker 1: Seventh and Grant Streets, a block north of Zion United
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Speaker 1: Church of Christ. Workers were busy at midday trying to
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Speaker 1: remove the fallen trunk, and it appeared restore power lines
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Speaker 1: brought down by the limb. Around ten to fifteen am,
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Speaker 1: A Maren reported outages concentrated in and around the Ottawa
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Speaker 1: and Marsila area. The number of outages in LaSalle County
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Speaker 1: was sixty as of noon on Tuesday. These outages are
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Speaker 1: among the three thousand, seven hundred and eighty eight American
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Speaker 1: customers in the state of Illinois without service