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Flickr / United Soybean Board If you were driving in San Antonio Thursday and saw signs advising you to fill up your gas tank, please know that the message wasn’t for you. We’re serious. Do. Not. Cause. Long-ass. Lines. At. The. Gas. Pumps. Here’s the sitch: the Texas Department of Transportation, better known as TxDOT, posted the message “Storm forming in the gulf, be prepared, fill your gas tanks” on electronic signs throughout the Lone…

Bring on the Florida stereotypes. From the director of the ‘Hills Have Eyes’ comes a new horror movie called ‘Crawl’ set in Florida that features a scary weather situation where a father and daughter must fight for their lives. During a hurricane, as the waters start rising around their home, two people will have to navigate through treacherous waters filled with flesh-eating alligators to make it to safety. “When a massive hurricane hits her Florida…

Bring on the Florida stereotypes. From the director of the ‘Hills Have Eyes’ comes a new horror movie called ‘Crawl’ set in Florida that features a scary weather situation where a father and daughter must fight for their lives. During a Hurricane as the waters start rising around their home, two people will have to navigate through treacherous waters filled with flesh-eating alligators to make it to safety. “When a massive hurricane hits her Florida…

PORTLAND, Ore. — The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado formed and touched down in Portland on Monday night. The NWS said it was an EF0 with wind speeds estimated at 80 mph. Many viewers sent KGW photos and videos of what they believed to be a funnel cloud. But the NWS has said that cloud which formed around 5:24 p.m. was indeed a tornado, with a track length of about a mile, which…

PORTLAND, Ore. — The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado formed and touched down in Portland on Monday night. The NWS said it was an EF0 with wind speeds estimated at 80 mph. Many viewers sent KGW photos and videos of what they believed to be a funnel cloud. But the NWS has said that cloud which formed around 5:24 p.m. was indeed a tornado, with a track length of about a mile, which…

A photo of flooding in Raymondville, Texas after storms hit the area Monday night. A photo of flooding in Raymondville, Texas after storms hit the area Monday night. Photo: Sumbitted: Rose Ramirez Photo: Sumbitted: Rose Ramirez Image 1 of / 9 Caption Close Image 1 of 9 A photo of flooding in Raymondville, Texas after storms hit the area Monday night. A photo of flooding in Raymondville, Texas after storms hit the area Monday night….

Central Bexar County is under a flash flood warning as thunderstorms dump heavy rains on San Antonio, according to the National Weather Service. Storms that hit Monday afternoon also caused power outages stretching from the North Side to the Northwest Side. Approximately 22,000 people were without power as of shortly before 4 p.m., according to CPS Energy’s outage map. “Our crews will work until everyone affected has their power restored,” said Rudy Garza, senior vice president of…

SAN ANTONIO — Neighbors in Eastwood Village say they have a flooding problem. The community says issues with flooding are an ongoing concern because every time it rains, from a major downpour to a fast-moving storm, the streets in their neighborhood flood, and massive amounts of debris clog the drains. Neighbors are then forced to clean up the trash and debris left behind when the water recedes. Ruben Guerrero is a past president of the…

By Mike Considine, Correspondent Published 12:00 am CDT, Tuesday, June 18, 2019 Brandon Molina hadn’t coached girls in several years, but he had no reservations when he was suddenly tabbed as Sam Houston’s interim girls track coach shortly before the season. Molina was about to start his second season as the Hurricanes’ baseball coach when the candidate to replace longtime girls track coach Michael Davis, who retired after the 2017 season, resigned in mid-January. SAISD athletic…

By Valeria Olivares, Staff Writer Updated 4:10 pm CDT, Sunday, June 16, 2019 Photo: Courtesy National Weather Service Photo: Courtesy National Weather Service Image 1 of / 3 Caption Close Image 1 of 3 Photo: Courtesy National Weather Service Thunderstorms capable of producing large hail, tornadoes to hit San Antonio Sunday night Back to Gallery Strong to severe thunderstorms are expected to roll into San Antonio later tonight, according to a National Weather Service forecast. The…

click to enlarge Twitter / @MaxMasseyTV A cleanup crew removes debris from a roadway following Thursday’s thunderstorm. Parts of San Antonio may look like a tornado whipped through Thursday evening, but the National Weather Service attributed the damage to straight line winds. “Based on radar data, we don’t suspect that there was any tornadic activity with the storms that rolled through San Antonio Thursday, just very intense straight line winds in excess of 50 miles…

Updated 11 mins ago More than 53,000 CPS Energy customers are without power as of 7 p.m. after severe thunderstorms and hail ripped through central San Antonio. As rush hour traffic-clogged roads, thunderstorms with lightning and sometimes quarter-sized hail moved across the city roughly from northwest to southeast. The storms uprooted trees, knocked down limbs and affected power lines across the city. The storm most severely affected power in the 78212 and 78201 ZIP codes…

Updated 1 min ago This story has been updated. More than 100 migrants from the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola will spend Thursday night at Travis Park Church after a brief storm blew a transformer and knocked out electrical power at the Frank Garrett Community Center. The community center should have power restored by tomorrow morning and Congolese migrants can return there for temporary shelter, said Jessica Dovalina, assistant director of the City’s Department of Human…

Things may have been busy at the Healthy You Nutrition and Fitness center on Wednesday but if you drove by Tuesday afternoon, that wasn’t the case. “It didn’t have to rain for such a long time for us to start noticing cars building especially on Marbach,” Healthy You business owner Sandra Barboza said. Quick and heavy rain left cars struggling just around the corner of Sandra Barboza’s shop on Tuesday afternoon forcing her to cancel…