A ghostlike fog hovered in the bottom lands after an all-day rain.

"During an all-day rain, it swallowed my mother's car."

Still, a steady stream of cars and vans, many of them from Chicago about 30 minutes away, made the trip down the new road leading to the boats, ignoring the cold, all-day rain and the thick morning fog.

The damp and cold conditions following an all-day rain were worse than Friday, when the White Sox postponed the series opener, citing the threat of cold weather.

Not even yesterday's all-day rain, which forced the postponement of Game 5 last night, washed it away.

An all-day rain cooled things considerably by this evening.

Just as Johnson awakened in the Cowboys' downtown hotel before dawn yesterday, thinking of how to cope with the 49ers in what weather forecasters had warned might be an all-day rain.

The all-day rain, ranging from a trickle to a torrent, had made the roads slippery and, on the last turn, Mengin's bicycle slid out from under him.

Because of an all-day rain on June 5, qualification was canceled.

Footing on the field was firm despite an all-day rain from a storm front that sent tornados spinning through suburban areas earlier in the day.