Heavy rain turns deadly in San Antonio

[Bosonic]

Source: NBC

The wet weather plaguing many parts of the U.S. this holiday weekend has turned fatal in sodden San Antonio.

One person is dead, another is missing and nearly a hundred more have been rescued as heavy rain has pummeled the Texas city, causing flash flooding.

The majority of rescues were people trapped in their vehicles in low-lying areas of the city, San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove told NBC News.

Bove confirmed one fatality thus far, a 29-year-old woman who was trapped in her vehicle and tried to escape the rising water by climbing onto the car's roof. She was washed away, and her body was found down the road against a fence.

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[alp227]

1. Tonight is game 3 of the NBA Western Conference Finals, where the Spurs are visiting Memphis.

I wonder if tonight's game were to take place in SA would the game be canceled?

But wow, the southern US is getting HAMMERED...first Moore, Oklahoma now San Antonio!

[tavalon]

2. San Antonio is one of the places I have lived

I hope all of my friends in San Antonio are okay.

[Lobo27]

3. I was reading an article on a science site.

That said that since so much polar ice has melted into the oceans. The current streams in the Atlantic and Pacific have risen because of the fresh water. And since North America is in the middle of the two oceans the continent would face the brunt of the problems.

[rdking647]

4. this type of storm isnt all that unusual for down here

im in austin,about 80 miles north. we got about 2 inches of rain between yesterday and today. san antonio got about 10" in 8 hours or so. they are prediciting we may get another wave of storms late tonight but my gut says we wont.
ive been here almost 4 years and have already seen a 10" rainfall and a couple of 4" plus rains. as someone told me about the weather down here

drought interrupted by periods of flood

[Paladin]

6. Sad to say, the San Antonio River has been killing people for centuries.

If you're in Austin, you know about the feast-or-famine nature of Texas weather......

[PatrynXX]

5. Remember

at the beginning of the year our drought in Iowa would continue. little chance for flooding. which changed in February when the snow flew... too warm for the snow to stay..

under a flash flood watch till 9am tomorrow in blackhawk county Iowa for 2-4 inches. I'm sure climate change has something to do with it. Course it's still Global Warming but because simpletons can't figure that out we gotta say climate change.

[SharonAnn]

13. Hello, fellow Iowan. I'm from Black Hawk County though my work took me away from there.

Still have a warm spot in my heart for Waterloo, IA.

Now living in East Tennessee where we have out share of torrential rains and flooding. But I still remember the springtime floods where the Cedar River tried to carry a water volume that seemed like the Mississippi.

[Rozlee]

7. Dayum. 30 miles south of me and I read about it on DU.

I need to watch my local news more. Up here in Boerne, it's been raining steadily, but nothing like this. Lots of San Antonio is pure flood plains. Sections of I-35 and I-10, especially around Salado Creek and Basse Road, can become lakes during hard rains.

[kentauros]

8. Maybe try Weather Underground.

http://www.wunderground.com/

I think you can set it up to send you alerts. I believe there are also apps for phones to do the same (my phone's not "smart" enough, so I don't know what the apps are, other than the fact that the NWS doesn't offer any of its own.)

Stay safe!

[Rozlee]

9. Thanks for the idea.

I got a couple of our local weather stations and scanned their apps on my mobile for alerts. They weren't very accurate this time though. Yesterday, they said the rain was over for the foreseeable forecast except for scattered showers in some parts of the viewing area.

[LeftInTX]

10. I didn't see the deluge in the forecast

Went to bed Friday night and didn't see rain in the forecast.

Woke up at 11 am Saturday. I slept through 9 inches of rain!!! How could I sleep through something like this?

[Rozlee]

11. I don't know about down in San Antone, but up here in Boerne

our rain didn't come with much thunder and lightning. Rain can be soothing and make you sleep good if it's not accompanied by window-rattling thunder and streaks of lightning.

[Gabby Hayes]

12. Flash Flood Alley

Hard to believe, but Central Texas still owns one-half of the world's short-term rainfall records. It bears repeating because the most recent wave of Sunbelt migrants moving into the region may not realize they are living in flash flood zones. Vacationers and campers are also prone. All too often, campers have gone to sleep under clear skies while a flash flood far upstream was sending a giant wall of water toward them.

The state makes relevant PSA's available to television stations but in recent years they've largely stopped airing them, due probably to the historic heat and drought. Weather radios fell out of favor because the alarm would go off at all hours of the night with irrelevant warnings. The radio makers, however, seem to be addressing that problem. In the meantime, because of this current period of changeable weather and hurricane season just ahead, television stations need to start running the PSA's again. In fact I am going to email the local television stations right now.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

14. My old carousing grounds. I went to college there.

Graduated from Trinity University several ice ages ago. Drove to Austin on weekends to go to the Armadillo. The rock and roll was in Austin, the classical stuff was in San Antonio.