A flash flood watch remained in effect for the San Antonio area until 7 p.m. after an early morning storm left five dead and resulted in dozens of high-water rescues.
Nick Soliz with the San Antonio Police Department said there 19 were people in the water, 10 were rescued, two self-rescued, five fatalities, three people still missing, and 15 vehicles found in floodwaters.
The SAFD reported an active morning as the storm generated heavy rains and flooding before the morning rush hour to work.
Dozens of roads in the San Antonio area remained closed by midday Thursday.
San Antonio started its sixth year of drought this year.
Up until 7 p.m., the San Antonio region was under a flash flood watch. M. after dozens of high-water rescues were conducted following an early-morning storm that claimed five lives.
There were 19 people in the water, 10 were rescued, two self-rescued, five people died, three people were still unaccounted for, and 15 vehicles were discovered in floodwaters, according to Nick Soliz of the San Antonio Police Department.
Around five in the morning, the San Antonio Fire Department (SAFD) confirmed that multiple cars were washed off the Loop 410 access road and into Beitel Creek. m.
Four more were taken to a hospital to receive medical attention.
When the storm caused heavy rains and flooding prior to the morning rush hour to work, the SAFD reported an active morning.
Joe Arrington, the fire department’s spokesperson, stated that as of 8 a.m. M. A total of 65 water rescues, including one by watercraft, occurred on Thursday.
In addition to reporting four transformer fires and three structure fires, they received 58 fire alarms.
Early this morning, some cars were observed sunk in water on the main lanes of I-35 at FM 3009 in Schertz, and at noon, flood waters covered the lower level of I-35 in downtown.
By midday Thursday, dozens of roads in the San Antonio region were still closed.
The largest rainfall event to hit the international airport in over ten years was six inches.
There were reports of penny-sized hail and winds of sixty miles per hour in Grey Forest. Minor damage was caused by a small twister a few miles southeast of Wimberley.
According to CPS Energy, after the worst of the storm passed through, roughly 30,000 residents were left without power. By noon on Thursday, crews from the city-owned power company had restored power to all but 8,500 of those customers.
The most recent information on local outages was also supplied by CPS Energy.
This year marked the beginning of San Antonio’s sixth year of drought.
Another one to three inches of rain is expected by Thursday evening, according to forecasters.
After a week of rain and cloudy skies, this weekend was predicted to be largely sunny and hot.
