Posted on 05/25/2013 8:14:26 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Torrential rains swamped San Antonio with flash floods on Saturday, leaving at least two people dead as emergency workers rushed to rescue more than 200 residents stranded in cars and homes.
“It was pretty crazy,” said Gera Hinojosa, a valet parking cars downtown after the storm. “It was pretty unexpected. We hardly got any warning about it.”
For two women, the storm turned fatal. …
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We can use the rain -— just not all at once.
Two guaranteed reactions:
1) Libs will claim it is proof of “global warming” and
2) Environmentalists will still claim it is not enough to relax drought conditions.
Flash-Flood Alley does it again.
People drown even in areas that experience flooding more frequently. It’s deceptive. That water ponding on roadways or running across them doesn’t look as deep as it sometimes is, for one. The force of it is another thing. Water that is out of it’s usual place is going to find that place, and it very well could take you along for the ride.
It was pretty bad. 281 by Nakoma was washed out.
People still drive 'want' to drive through the water. Every friggin low area on the road has a flash warning sign.
Did this affect the River Walk? We vacationed there once a long time ago.
And Houston remains bone dry.
Aw, shucks.
God Blessed Texas!
Just as the Spurs are washing away the Grizzlies.
2) Environmentalists will still claim it is not enough to relax drought conditions.
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You certainly nailed that one!
For an allegedly “Conservative” state, Texas surely has given control of its water resources to the “water Nazis.”
There needs to be an effort to take control of our water back from them.
Flash-Flood Alley does it again.
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Indeed!
I’m here in Austin visiting my daughter. The rain was pretty intense yesterday, fast and hard. She was smiling, saying it’s needed. They had rapids flowing in a creek in their back yard, it was bone dry last time I was here.
The water table is way down...it has nothing to do with the enviormentalist.
I believe I read in the San Antonio Express News that the level in the main monitoring well of the Edwards Aquifer had risen two feet by early Saturday afternoon. Still, it’s about 30-feet below normal for this time of year. But it’s expected to rise more over the next few days as more water seeps into the ground.
Wonder if the rain had any affects on Medina Lake? That thing is bone dry.
Also, should be some good tubin’ on the New Braunfels and Comal Rivers for the next few days! Talk about shootin’ the rapids!
I don’t think the riverwalk will be effected too much, but everything downstream looks to be near historic records.
http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=ewx&gage=elmt2&type=2&view=1,0,1,0,0,1
Texas is generally not a land of balanced moderation in most things concerning nature.
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