Forecasters fear that flooding will follow state's thaw
By The Associated Press
Saturday December 27, 2008
John Dixon
Fog shrouds a corn crib alongside Champaign County Highway 6, south of Seymour, on Friday.
CHICAGO – Mother Nature on Friday continued to mix it up in Illinois by following snowstorms and blasts of Arctic air earlier in the week with freezing rain, then fog and rapidly rising temperatures that threatened flash flooding.
Roadways lacquered with ice during early morning commutes thawed quickly, but mountains of melting snow began to create hazardous pools of water on those same roads later in the day.
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