Crews in Plainfield will be working well into next week to clear debris from Friday night's severe storms, Public Works Director Allen Persons said Monday at a village Board of Trustees meeting.

Storms that rolled across the region late Friday blasted the village with wind gusts Police Chief John Konopek compared to a "Class one hurricane," leaving the southwest suburban town strewn with downed power lines, tree limbs and other debris.

Main roads have been cleared, and only a handful of buildings were without power Monday, and Public Works crews were chipping branches residents piled on parkways across the village, Persons said. The workers are moving through the village from the harder-hit north end of town to the south, and should finish their work within two weeks.

Konopek said sensors at the village Emergency Management recorded wind gusts of 57 miles per hour before power was knocked out. The National Weather Service office in nearby Romeoville recorded wind speeds as high as 87 miles per hour Konopek said.

Among the more spectacular scenes of destruction Friday was a tree that fell on a moving car, crushing the vehicle so badly firefighters had to cut the driver and passenger - who were unhurt -out of the vehicle, Konopek said.

Emergency call traffic during the storm was 12 times greater than the typical Friday night call volume, Konopek said. Backup generators at police headquarters failed during the storm, but emergency generators were brought in to provide power until electric service was restored Saturday morning, Konopek said.

The village should incur no costs above overtime pay for the nearly 30 Public works employees assigned to cleanup duty, Persons said.

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