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Friday’s superstorm: Flooded viaducts, water rescues and a rampaging Butterfield Creek

 

Flooding on Dartmouth Road in Flossmoor looking
toward the dead end following storms Friday night.
 
(Provided photo)
 

The first call came in at 8:05 p.m. last Friday night.

A car was stalled at the flooded intersection of Sterling Avenue and Flossmoor Road in downtown Flossmoor. With heavy rain falling for most of the evening, streets in the bowl-like downtown area were already under several feet of water. The Flossmoor Road viaduct, with…

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