Storm causes temporary street flooding
Heavy predawn rainfall caused temporary street flooding in Champaign-Urbana early today, but officials said things were already improving by 8 a.m.
"It sure did rain," said Jim Kelly, operations manager for the Urbana Public Works Department. "It was a matter of it coming out of the sky faster than it could go into the ground."
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