Took them about 30 hours. I have some suspicions about the incompetence involved though. It was clear that power had been back on at some point yesterday while we were in Chicago, and gone back off. Houses fairly close to us had power, where they had been out in the morning.

Around one this morning, another call to Comm Ed produced the message that "a problem had been identified but additional resources were required to correct it." My suspicion is that they had opened knife switches on a utility pole and didn't reclose them securely after making their repairs. It was dark and raining hard, and possibly the crew sent back to re-examine it were not equipped to close those switches or were unwilling to to it under those conditions. It came back at first light this morning, when someone could better see what they were doing with one of those long safety poles.

I think I know where to look, because I saw the floodlight being passed over the lines up the road around midnight last night. If there are switches there, my suspicion is confirmed.