San Antonio, TX – As flash flood watches continue in South Central Texas until 10 PM tonight, San Antonio’s Jewish community seems to have emerged relatively unscathed from the weekend storms.
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“Walking to Shul yesterday was definitely interesting,” Rabbi Yossi Marrus, Associate Rabbi of Chabad Lubavitch of South Texas told VIN News. “There was a huge amount of water but in our area there was not too much flooding, Baruch Hashem, and by the time Kiddush came around we had one hundred and fifty people for a Sheva Brachos Kiddush.”
Close to ten inches of water were reported at San Antonio International Airport yesterday in a matter of hours, located approximately six miles southeast of the Blanco Road Chabad Lubavitch Center located, and Rabbi Marrus reported that the newly opened mikvah is now filled to capacity thanks to yesterday’s torrential rains.
Advisories issued by the National Weather Service warn of thunderstorms that could potentially product two to four inches of rain per hour, with flood warnings in effect for several rivers that have already risen well above the flood stage, according to the Associated Press.
Over 200 people were rescued by emergency workers, as previously reported on VIN News, and the number of fatalities from this weekend’s deluge has risen to three as rescue workers recovered the body of 18 year old Avron Adams, who was swept away by flood waters yesterday as he tried to cross the Cibolo Creek yesterday in the San Antonio suburb of Schertz. Two women, ages 60 and 29, were both were reported dead yesterday, but their names have not been released by the Bexar County Medical Examiner’s office.
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