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A ComEd spokesman calls this the worst summer storm season in the company's history. Between 3,000 and 10,000 were without power Sunday morning after another bout of heavy rain and lightning ripped through the area.

The summer of storms continued Saturday night and Sunday morning, as another bout of heavy rain and lightning tore through the area.

The storm left many in the area without power. According to ComEd Spokesman Arlana Johnson, there were 32,000 customers without electricity at around 11 a.m. Sunday, and crews were out working on downed lines and other issues. Roughly 17,000 of those customers were in the western suburbs, Johnson said.

According to ComEd’s outage map, between 3,000 and 10,000 people in the Aurora area (which includes Montgomery) were without power Sunday morning.

There were several reports of a downed power line at the intersection of Mill Street and Route 25, and though neither ComEd nor the Montgomery and Countryside Fire Protection District would confirm that Sunday morning, the intersection was closed off, and ComEd crews could be seen working there.

Several downtown businesses, including the River View Diner and Elmer’s Doghouse, were without power Sunday morning.

Johnson said this summer has seen the most outages in ComEd’s history. As of Saturday evening, she said, the number had already topped two million, and that was before this latest storm. And, she noted, the summer storm season isn’t over yet.

“Our crews have been working really hard,” she said.

Just north in Aurora, lightning struck three homes, causing minor damage and no injuries. Aurora firefighters rescued a 70-year-old woman from her car when it got stuck in water on Eola Road near Ridge Drive, officials said.

And two trees on Watson Street fell on top of cars, officials said. No one was injured.

The National Weather Service has issued a flood warning for southern Kane County and Kendall County. The NWS has also issued a flood advisory for the Fox River in Montgomery, and predicts the water level will rise to 12.5 feet by Sunday afternoon. Flood stage for the Fox is 13 feet, but according to village officials, it needs to get to 14 feet before home and street flooding would be expected.

According to an ongoing water level analysis conducted by the NWS, the river is expected to hold steady around 12.5 feet until Tuesday, and then recede.