Power out for hundreds in Roscoe and Rockton area
Perhaps thousands of residents lost their electricity on icy days.
UPDATE: As of 8:52 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023, ComEd still listed 18 outages in the Roscoe area, affecting 517 customers. Rock Energy Cooperative listed 869 customers without power in the Rockton area and 762 in the Roscoe area or 18.82% of their customers. Click on the name of your provider to view their current outage map.
Residents of several subdivisions, many east of the Village of Roscoe, suddenly lost electrical power Wednesday afternoon, Feb. 22, 2023, over an area that covered Love Road, McCurry Road, and Belvidere Road. Some of the affected neighborhoods included Promontory Ridge and Northwoods (off Rockton Road near White School Road), Hinkle's Wooded Acres (west of Atwood Road between Burr Oak and Belvidere Road,) as well as the neighborhood around Royal Court east of Atwood Road. But some residents in the Village of Roscoe were affected as well.
Meanwhile, in the Rockton area, which is served by Rock Energy Cooperative, hundreds were without power on Thursday. Rock Energy serves 6,328 customers in the Rockton area and 4,049 in the Roscoe area.
For many in Roscoe, the lights went out around 4:40 p.m. ComEd said power was restored at 8:21 p.m. for many of these customers, while other residents were still reporting problems until an hour later. Fry Subdivision, east of 2nd Street and north of Chestnut Street in Roscoe, was still without electricity as of 10:14 p.m.
At 11 p.m. the ComEd outage map showed hundreds of outages in Winnebago County, with 571 customers in Roscoe and 113 customers east of the village still without power. Even in the Village of Roscoe, some outages were still being evaluated.
ComEd said:
Outage Status: As of 7:21 PM CT on 2/22/2023 we indicate that 438 customer(s) are affected by a power outage in your area [including Hinkle's Wooded Acres]. Severe weather has interrupted your service. Our field crews have investigated your outage and have determined that additional resources are necessary to restore power. We are currently in the process of estimating when service will be restored.
Charter Spectrum also reported an outage and at 7 p.m. said it was taking longer than expected to repair. Service was restored later.
ComEd customers who have registered for online accounts can check the status of power outages at https://secure.comed.com/MyAccount/MyBillUsage/Pages/Secure/Check-My-Outage-Status.aspx .
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