ERIC SUMBERG
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Floods Slam DeKalb
Bruce Bickner (from left), Brian Bickner and Lance McGill work to start a generator to help clear the knee-deep water that flooded the basement of the home of their friends Mort and Ann Carrel on Friday afternoon on Fairmont Drive in DeKalb. After consecutive rainstorms raised the Kishwaukee River to its highest levels in about two decades, area residents were looking for some relief. “Hopefully the worst is over,” Brian Bickner said.
