A car remained partially submerged as Fox River waters rushed around it in North Aurora at mid-week. (Suburban Chronicle photo)

Last week started with a deluge and small portions of Kane County were still trying to bail out through the weekend.

The county received more rain in a 24-hour period than any other county in Illinois on Monday, June 15, with Elburn topping the list at 4.45 inches.

According to the National Weather Service, Geneva was No. 4, with 3.93 inches, Batavia sixth with 3.87 inches in one location and 3.70 inches in another.

Batavia officials said the rainfall “caused problems in some areas not seen since the flooding of 1996 and never seen at all in others, despite expenditures since that time on water control measures,” the city reported.

All Geneva streets were reported open within a day of the big rain but work crews were still dealing with areas of standing water. At one point, electrical service to the Geneva radio tower, that houses the Sheriff’s Office main radio transmitter, lost electricity.

In North Aurora a car inexplicably ended up in the Fox River, with seat bags deployed and facing north as waters rushed by. It was later learned that the car was involved in an Wednesday accident unrelated to weather.

The Fox River was at flood stage at a survey station in Montgomery late last week, but was projected to steadily decline in coming days.

Kane County activated its Emergency Operations Center last Monday afternoon. EOC and KaneComm received numerous reports of over-road flooding, Kane County Office of Emergency Management Director Don Bryant said.

The EOC received a request from a resident in Lily Lake for sandbags, as rain water had crossed the road and was entering their home, and Kane County’s Division of Transportation also responded to reports of road flooding to post warning signs.

Neither the EOC nor KaneComm received any other requests for assistance due to residential flooding.

A 1996 storm event remains the benchmark for rainfall in Kane County.

The City of Aurora received the greatest 24-hour rainfall (16.94 inches) in Illinois history, exceeding the previous record of 16.54 inches at East St. Louis on June 14, 1957, according to the Champaign, Ill.-based Midwest Regional Climate Center.

A broad band of 8-inch-plus rainfall from just south of Rockford to a little north of Kankakee exceeded the 7.58 inch threshold regarded as the average 100-year (once every 100 years) 24-hour storm for a given point in northeast Illinois.

The deluge in Aurora was considered a 1-in-1,000-year event, the climate center reported.