PHOTOS: Last Night’s Power Outage Sears Tower Looks Eerie From Every Angle
Yes, I know its technically the Willis Tower, but I just can’t, so shut it.
Anyway, if you happen to get your television using an antenna, you may have noticed some of your favorite stations (and other radio stations) were off the air, or had other broadcasting problems. That’s because the SEARS! Tower, like many of you, suffered some flooding in their basement. Unlike many of you, there are numerous broadcasting antennas on the roof, so when the basement flooded and caused havoc with a ComEd sub-station that caused the entire building to lose power, it also caused those stations to go off air.
If the Willis Tower had one light switch pic.twitter.com/tHIGG8epnS
— john j. kim (@jkimpictures) May 20, 2020
This is the basement of The Sears Tower. #WillisTower #SearsTower #IllinoisFlood #ChicagoFlood pic.twitter.com/fhaMjitF1Z
— ✨Lil Miss Cupcake in the Plastic Bubble (@CupcakeSnarky) May 19, 2020
Besides that, it just looks so weird! It’s like someone cut out the Sears Tower from the skyline, leaving a Sears Tower- shaped hole.
Flooding caused a power outage at the sears tower and it’s extremely ominous with no lights on pic.twitter.com/eQyKP22y3j
— A Jay Holmgren (@AJHolmgren) May 20, 2020
Was anyone planning on telling the world that the Sears Tower has a face? pic.twitter.com/0jgEwzY05e
— Day Dream Sleeper (@DayDreamSleeps) May 20, 2020
My lights out shot of #searstower #willistower ….. #Chicagoflood #lightsout #intheloopchi pic.twitter.com/GLqLDNu5j9
— Tammy Sue Allen (@TSAphoto) May 20, 2020
Power is STILL out at Sears Tower after the weekend storms. It looks like a black matte hole in the skyline. pic.twitter.com/8z1lgKrc9r
— [semi-employed bi-homicidal wandering jewess] (@allshiny) May 20, 2020
Great shots of a darkened Willis tower among the lit skyline ⚫️
The building formerly known as Sears tower is still out of power after flooding@cbschicago | : Jeffrey Peters pic.twitter.com/DvZDT3Yqhw
— Marissa Parra (@MarParNews) May 20, 2020
The power went out @ Sears Tower and now it looks like some GD robot about to wreak havoc upon Chicago, and honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if that actually happened. pic.twitter.com/wsUMZ9nhzl
— Dr. Kanz (@KarleeKanz) May 20, 2020
And of course, the Internet got creative:
— (Peter Griffin Enthusiast) (@Aegtic) May 20, 2020
We all knew this was coming.
Sears Tower 2020. #SearsTower pic.twitter.com/cXV6DJSC6N— Price of Reason (@priceoreason) May 20, 2020
Power outage at Sears tower is giving me major creepy vibes @barstoolchicago pic.twitter.com/FnD0rvK6Vj
— Marina Fahmy (@MarinaFahmy5) May 20, 2020
The Sears Tower with the power out belongs in a horror movie (via @CubsGirl10) pic.twitter.com/MAW5FVqmQR
— Barstool Chicago (@barstoolchicago) May 20, 2020
I’ll never get this image of the disappointed sears tower out of my head pic.twitter.com/5xEuMBQqXo
— Chase Moloney (@chasemoloney_) May 20, 2020
It appears that major flooding last Sunday caused a building-wide power outage at Chicago's iconic 1,450 ft.-tall Willis Tower (aka Sears Tower), which has since loomed ominously over the city's nighttime skyline as a black-souled metaphor for the United States in the year 2020. pic.twitter.com/lKSh9mXe30
— Donald Koelper (@Donald_from_HI) May 20, 2020
