Saturday, November 21, 2009 East Central Illinois

Storm causes temporary street flooding

By Steve Bauer
Tuesday, June 3, 2008 10:33 AM CDT

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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