Chicago has lost its famous beacon, and it’s creeping out Second City residents.
The famed “Sears Tower” suffered a blackout Sunday after massive flooding caused a power outage in the high-rise — with many Chicagoans suddenly seeing an ominous face staring down at them, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
“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,” one resident posted on Twitter.
“I’ll never get this image of the disappointed sears tower out of my head,” another tweeted.
The 110-story, 1,450-foot-tall building, which is officially called the Willis Tower, went dark Sunday after massive rainfall in the city flooded out the basement and sparked the outage, the Sun-Times reported. Completed in 1973, it topped New York’s World Trade Center to become the world’s tallest building at the time.
Power remained out as of Wednesday morning.
The power was knocked out at Chicago’s Willis Tower after four feet of water flooded the building’s electrical vault.@DFabreezy / Twitter