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The band of thunder and rainstorms that traveled through the north suburban area overnight July 11 and into July 12 mostly spared Wilmette and Winnetka from flooding problems that hit Lake County, officials in both communities said.

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Both east and west Wilmette recorded about one and three-quarter inches of rain overnight on July 11, Village Manager Tim Frenzer said. The village got no calls for flooding, but did get two calls overnight for tree limbs down on power lines, he said.a

Frenzer said the village’s West Park underground sanitary sewer holding facility was slowly taking some water.

“The system is doing what it’s supposed to do,” he said.

A “check valve” Wilmette installed on its west Wilmette system worked as planned to protect Wilmette sewers from Metropolitan Water Reclamation District floodwater backups, Frenzer said.

“The day’s early, and we’re going to have more rain, but so far we’re handling things,” he said.

In Glencoe, the Chicago Botanic Garden was forced to close for several days due to the rain, but reopened over the weekend.

In Winnetka, Village Manager Rob Bahan said the village escaped the brunt of the storm.

“Between 10:30 p.m. last night to just before 11 a.m. this morning, just a little over three inches fell on us,” he said.

A few Winnetka street intersections were flooded temporarily, but public works crews were able to clear that up quickly, and the village received no reports of significant house flooding, Bahan said. The village’s Ash Street and Winnetka Avenue pump stations worked as they should, he said.

Officials were waiting to see if Winnetka might need to deploy one of its two auxiliary pumps, near Crow Island School, Bahan said, “but we might not need to.”

Kenilworth, situated between Wilmette and Winnetka, had received no reports of flooding problems by the morning of July 12, according to an official with the village manager’s office.

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