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URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD ADVISORY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHICAGO IL

940 PM CDT SAT OCT 13 2001



THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED AN URBAN AND SMALL STREAM

FLOOD ADVISORY EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 AM CDT SUNDAY MORNING FOR PEOPLE

IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES



IN NORTHEAST ILLINOIS

     NORTHERN COOK...DUPAGE AND NORTHERN WILL COUNTIES



* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED INCLUDE...

  MOUNT PROSPECT

  WHEATON

  NAPERVILLE

  BOLINGBROOK 

  LISLE

  BENSENVILLE 



AT 935 PM CDT...NUMEROUS ROADS WERE STILL CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING 

SUCH AS ROUTE 83 IN BENSENVILLE AND ROUTE 53 IN LISLE. HOMES WERE 

FLOODED ON HALE STREET IN WHEATON ILLINOIS. HOMES AND STREETS WERE 

FLOODED IN MOUNT PROSPECT. 



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT...AND WATCH FOR FLOODED ROADS.



IF YOU ENCOUNTER A FLOODED ROAD...TURN AROUND AND FIND AN ALTERNATE

ROUTE. A CAR OR SMALL TRUCK WILL FLOAT IN ABOUT 2 FEET OF WATER...

EVEN WITH 4 WHEEL DRIVE. MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN VEHICLES.

DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS.



$$

WILSON

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