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Me too?
I'm one soggy Taco this morning
Me too?
It's still raining like a mutha!
Low water crossings here I come!
The big squall line is past, but on radar it looks like we're going to get "hit and run" showers for a while.
Me too?
Me too?
^^^ RACK ^^^
WOW
I'll pretend like i didnt get what SW just said
So, SW has a "soggy taco", and User had a killer date last night.
Coincidence?
Yeah!
I missed a bus leaving Jess' yesterday, so I ended up getting to my last bus stop about an hour late. Well, that cost me, because my last bus stop is about a mile from home. With my bike it's no sweat, I'm home in a couple of minutes, but last night god said you Manuel.
As SOON as i got off the bus, it started POURING. and I'm riding along, getting soaked, but that's not that big of a deal. Then the wind nearly knocks me off my bike. Then I'm having to bike INTO the wind. You know, you don't notice like this untill you do it, but that wind is STRONG as , and pedaling into it is quite difficult.
The worst was about a block from home. The rain has been stinging up untill this point but all of that was nothing compared to what it felt like when the hail started falling. That STUNG.
It was an experience to say the least.
Then I get home and hear about a Tornado near not only my place (I live a couple of miles from Lackland) but also one near Jess' apartment. God was gunning for me.
I WIN. I WIN!!!
It didn't rain hard enough if your Mexican ass is still in America
Might be time to think about changing that username, Manny. You want an explanation!
GOD
IS
PISSED!
God ain't got on me.
Well, the upside is that we didn't read about you having to be rescued!
Unlike two goobers from Texas State.
This was Texas State (then SWT) back in 1998. From my bus ride to campus around noon, it looks as if the water got to street level, but nowhere near what it was in '98.
Now, here's the story of the goobers who crossed the Blanco (well, tried).
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NEW: Texas State students rescued by helicopter from floodwaters
Web Posted: 11/17/2004 01:28 PM CST
Roger Croteau
Express-News Staff Writer
Two Texas State University students were rescued from the raging Blanco River after being washed off the same low water crossing that claimed a woman's life Sunday night.
Kyle Anderson, 19, and John Anger, 20, apparently drove around a barricade on Post Road, where it crosses the Blanco River, and were swept downstream at about 5:30 a.m. today, said Hays County Sheriff's Department spokesman Leroy Opiela. The two were found standing on the roof of their car in water up to their knees.
The Hays County Sheriff's Department has filed a Class A misdemeanor charge of deadly conduct against Anderson accusing him of driving around the barricades and attempting to cross the Blanco River. He has not yet been arrested. No charges were filed against the passenger.
A StarFlight helicopter responded and lifted the two men off the car, lowering a rescuer in a harness to lift the men, Opiela said. They were treated for hypothermia and released.
"We had a couple of other rescues where people were taken out with fire trucks, but nothing as dramatic as that one," Opiela said.
The body of 24-year-old Laurie Pineda, who is presumed drowned after being washed off the same crossing Sunday night, still has not been recovered. Her boyfriend, Jason Schmidt, was found clinging to a tree, but Pineda had disappeared.
Opiela said water was receding around the county by 10:30 a.m. and many of the dozens of closed roads were being reopened. Closed crossings also were being reopened in other area counties as floodwaters from Tuesday night's storms receded.
The Comal and Boerne school districts canceled classes for the day because flooded low-water crossings made travel in the area dangerous this morning.
"You could not get in or out of Comal Elementary School on Farm Road 482," said Comal School District spokeswoman Kari Hutchison. "There are low-water crossings in every direction. It can get pretty isolated. With so many crossings in the area flooded, we decided to cancel classes for the day. Our district is 589 square miles, so it may look fine in one area, but be unsafe to be out in other areas."
Extracurricular activities and after-school care also were canceled, and the day will be made up some time in the spring, Hutchison said.
In Seguin, police were keeping a close eye on the Guadalupe River and Geronimo Creek, which both rose quickly but stayed within their banks.
"They are starting to recede," said Seguin Police Deputy Chief Reno Reiley. "Everything is going pretty good."
In Boerne, the earthen flood-control dam on Cibolo Creek, which forms Boerne City Lake, was close to overflowing into its spillway, which had only happened in 1997 and in the July 2002 flood, said Boerne Police Chief Gary Miller.
He said Cibolo Creek was already receding below the dam, so even if the spillway does overflow, it should not cause flooding. The dam did its job by holding back the water upstream as the creek crested below the dam, he said.
Miller said there had been a few calls in Boerne for people whose cars stalled out in high water, but they were all able to walk out on their own and did not require rescuing.
Two tornadoes were reported in Gillespie County Tuesday night, but no damage was reported. One was about 13 miles west of Fredericksburg near U.S. 290 at about 7 p.m. and later in the night another was reported near Enchanted Rock in the Willow City area. Blanco County also reported two twisters in the Johnson City area Tuesday night, with no damage reported.
Rain totals of two to eight inches were reported in the area, with the heaviest ac ulations generally northwest of San Antonio.
Canyon Lake had risen three feet, to 914 feet above mean sea level and rising at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The spillway level is 943 feet msl, so unless more heavy rains fall, the lake is expected to crest well short of the spillway.
The Guadalupe, Blanco and San Marcos rivers were projected to crest near or just above flood stage in several areas as a result of the rain, but areas expected to be flooded are not populated and no evacuations or flooded homes are expected, according to the Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority.
I just don't get what's so hard to understand the meaning of a barricade.
Ingram road always floods and I heard today that some stupid lady walked right past the barricades as they were putting them up and had to be rescued.
Idiots.
Every damn time it rains, these idiot come out.
Touche!
Those barricades are always getting in my way when I'm trying to cross the high water. I get all wet when I have to get out and move them to the side before I cross.
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