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| 1 | | HOUSE RESOLUTION
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, On September 13, 2017, the National Hurricane
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| 3 | | Center began tracking a tropical wave that ultimately became
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| 4 | | Hurricane Maria; and
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| 5 | | WHEREAS, Hurricane Maria became the tenth most intense
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| 6 | | Atlantic hurricane on record and the most intense tropical
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| 7 | | storm of the 2017 season; and
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| 8 | | WHEREAS, On September 20, 2017, Hurricane Maria made
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| 9 | | landfall in Puerto Rico as a Category 4 storm with sustained
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| 10 | | wind speeds of 155 miles per hour; and
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| 11 | | WHEREAS, Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico and the U.S.
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| 12 | | Virgin Islands just 14 days after Hurricane Irma did; and
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| 13 | | WHEREAS, All of the 3.5 million residents of Puerto Rico |
| 14 | | lost
power following Hurricanes Irma and Maria; and
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| 15 | | WHEREAS, In the nearly seven months since Hurricane Maria
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| 16 | | made landfall in Puerto Rico, more than 40,000 people are
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| 17 | | without electricity; and
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| 18 | | WHEREAS, Puerto Rico is experiencing the longest blackout
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| 19 | | in U.S. history and second-longest in world history, measured
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| 1 | | in customer hours of lost electricity service; and
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| 2 | | WHEREAS, 146 ComEd employees went voluntarily to Puerto
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| 3 | | Rico to assist the local utility in restoring power; and
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| 4 | | WHEREAS, The employees who went to Puerto Rico faced
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| 5 | | unfamiliar and treacherous terrain on the island's mountains
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| 6 | | and in its rainforests; and
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| 7 | | WHEREAS, These employees, along with utility workers from
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| 8 | | the five other Exelon utilities, installed 376 poles, 267
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| 9 | | transformers, and more than 108 miles of cable; and
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| 10 | | WHEREAS, Through these employees' hard work over 50 days
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| 11 | | the island, more than 11,000 customers in affected areas
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| 12 | | their power restored; therefore, be it
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| 13 | | RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE |
| 14 | | HUNDREDTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that we |
| 15 | | recognize the humanitarian efforts of the men and women of |
| 16 | | ComEd who volunteered to help restore electricity to the Island |
| 17 | | of Puerto Rico, known affectionately as La Isla del Encanto; |
| 18 | | and be it further
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| 19 | | RESOLVED, That a suitable copy of this resolution be
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| 20 | | presented to the ComEd Operations Team leads for their
service |