High water, flood warnings hit Illinois

LINCOLN -- Heavy rains have swelled rivers and pushed water onto roadways in northern and western Illinois, prompting flood warnings.

Kirk Huettl (HIT-tehl) is with the National Weather Service in Lincoln. Huettl said Saturday that heavy rains Wednesday and Friday overwhelmed areas. He says rainy weather this spring has put rivers and creeks across Illinois into flood stages, forcing more warnings.

Huettl says Fulton and Knox counties in west central Illinois have been hard hit.

Weather service spotters have reported water and mud from farm fields flowing over roads, small streams pouring over banks and roads closed because of high water.

The weather service forecasts dry weather for several days and meteorologists say they hope that will dry fields.