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You've seen the video, now here is the results of the tornado across the diamonds at Chicago Heights June 8, 2008.

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You've seen the video, now here is the results of the tornado across the diamonds at Chicago Heights June 8, 2008.

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Chicago Heights Radio base turned on it's foundation. I replaced this one shortly after this. Used a case with buried legs this time! At no time did we lose communication to the interlocking or the radio base even with the comm lines on the ground.

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Remainder of one of Com Ed's pole line. My boss told me to replace 3 old pole line poles at this location the month before. Com Ed lost 5 brand new poles during this event. My 3 rotten poles were still standing. Told my boss I was NOT going to replace e

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Here is the result of one of those bright blue flashes you see in the video. This antenna had several burn marks on it.

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Out of all the damage, we lost ONE wire to the eastbound dwarf signal. Ran out some bond strand, and were back in business. Never mind the FD would not let trains pass for 24 hours.

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Here is the source of those bright blue flashes!