The Blanco River this time swelled to about 26 feet in Wimberley, almost twice the flood stage. The person’s identity, including gender, is not being released pending notification of family members.
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According to Jim Halbrook at Austin-Bergstrom worldwide Airport, morning flights in and outbound were on hold until the extreme weather subsides.
More than 10 inches of rain fell in a two-hour span near the creek Friday morning.
The county proclamation says the area “has suffered widespread or severe damage, injury or loss of life or property” or that there’s a threat of those occurring.
Before dawn the weather system triggered possible tornados in the town of Floresville.
“I am seeing the tires from the trailer on the roof of the Holiday Inn Express”, Floresville resident Donna Rudolph-Miller told reporters. She was pulled to safety from the rising waters by passers-by.
The winds ultimately ripped the door off the building and damaged windows, but no one inside was injured, Veliz said.
No fatalities have been reported from Friday’s storm as emergency personnel across South and Central Texas rushed to close roadways overwhelmed by water and respond to high-water rescues.
The storms and suspected tornadoes have socked an already-sodden swath of Texas that was still drying out from the remnants of Hurricane Patricia, forcing evacuations of flood-prone areas and slowing or shutting down traffic on stretches of Interstate 35.
Mike Stoner gets out of his flooded auto Friday in San Marcos, Texas. Many vehicles on the interstate, one of the primary arteries through Texas, were abandoned by their drivers.
Guadalupe County sheriff’s Capt. Tom Meeley said a few houses and buildings between Seguin and Zorn lost their roofs. Runyen said businesses have been damaged in downtown D’Hanis and that trees are also down. The ground floor of the Austin air-traffic-control tower was flooded by about 6 inches of water during the storm, airport officials said.
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She was driving to work when she heard a tornado warning and made a decision to return home.
