{"id":81571,"date":"2026-06-11T14:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/81571\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T14:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:27:10","slug":"storms-slam-kane-county-route-38-in-geneva-shut-down-by-flooding-2-more-rounds-on-way-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/81571\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms slam Kane County, Route 38 in Geneva shut down by flooding; 2 more rounds on way \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

Route 38 in Geneva<\/a> was shut down early Thursday because of flooding after a pounding of rain and winds that also downed trees and power lines in around Kane County<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Batavia reported late Wednesday that the city\u2019s Electric Department was addressing power outages in the Woodland Hills area and warned residents to stay away from downed power lines.<\/p>\n

Batavia residents without power or those who see trees or branches on electrical wires were asked to call 630-454-BULB, and residents in the 300 block of Republic Road who back up to Memorial Park were told not to enter their backyards.<\/p>\n

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The National Weather Service outlines the threat levels of severe weather for northern Illinois on Thursday, June 11, 2026. (Photo provided by National Weather Service)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ComEd wires could become energized at any time,\u201d the city said in a social media post. <\/p>\n

ComEd was reporting several hundreds customers in Kane County without power early Thursday morning, before Thursday\u2019s rounds of storms were due to hit.<\/p>\n

The St. Charles<\/a> Business Alliance canceled its Unwind Wednesday outdoor live music series this week because of the dicey weather.<\/p>\n

The Route 38 closure in Geneva was announced at about 7:30 a.m. Thursday, in a roadwork construction zone, which city officials asked drivers to avoid.<\/p>\n

Two more strong storm systems were on the way Thursday, with a hazardous weather outlook across much of northern Illinois and the Chicago region. That included a \u201csignificant\u201d thunderstorm risk with the possibility of tornadoes, damaging winds up to 80 mph, large hail and an elevated flooding risk, the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n

The two rounds of severe storms forecast for Thursday were between 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. and then between 4 and 11 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Route 38 in Geneva was shut down early Thursday because of flooding after a pounding of rain and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[9087,1979,65,898,9088,876],"class_list":["post-81571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-batavia","tag-breaking","tag-geneva","tag-kane-county","tag-st-charles","tag-weather"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116731946423685809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}