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2025-06-15 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by badanov 2025-06-15 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [119 views ] Top

#1 For those unfamiliar, San Antonio has a lot of ravines and narrow draws that fill and empty quickly. There are notorious interstate exit ramps that you don't use if it's been raining.

Posted by ed in texas 2025-06-15 08:24|| 2025-06-15 08:24|| Front Page Top

#2 True and kind of embarrassing that an unwary driver can be drowned within city limits in one of the deeper low-water crossing areas. Our rain gauge registered more than 6 and a half inches overnight, one of our neighbors reported 7 inches.
In the October 1998 floods, one fatality the driver of a pickup truck swept off the Basse St offramp on the 281 right by the newest and ritziest shopping center in town, the Quarry.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2025-06-15 09:08|| 2025-06-15 09:08|| Front Page Top

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