There was heavy rain just about all day Wednesday, but locally the rivers and streams seemed to handle it well.

Some small streams were flooded, but no major problems were reported.A check this morning showed that even Mahoning Creek, notorious for flooding in the area of Country Club Road, was well below highway level. There was ponding in the road at one section from poor drainage, but not from the river going wild.Locally most areas got between 2 and 3 inches of rain. Heavier rain was reported in the southern part of the state. Spring City in Chester County had 6.56 inches of rain, according to the National Weather Service.Locally, Slatington had 3.54 inches of rain and a section of the West End of Monroe County, near Brodheadsville, received 3.78 inches.Kenya Jones, a truck driver having breakfast at a local restaurant, said he came up from Philadelphia where he had to drive carefully because some streets were covered with a couple of inches of water.He said once he hit the Lehigh County area yesterday, it was raining hard but he didn't encounter any problems.The rain caused a scratch to local sporting events for two days in a row, leading athletic directors to reconfigure schedules for spring sports that already are a mess from a wet spring.River levels were lower than some people had projected.The Lehigh River peaked at 5.86 in Lehighton at about 8:30 a.m. today, well below the flood level of 9 feet.Pohopoco Creek in Parryville had a 3.85 foot measurement this morning. The flood level is 5.5 feet. It already has begun receding.In Walnutport, the Lehigh River reached 6.38 feet, still over 1 1/2 feet lower than the 8-foot flood stage.