Flooding closes area highways
As heavy rains continued to fall this afternoon, rising creeks shut down several major highways and prompted sporadic evacuations in San Antonio area counties.
Texas 46 between New Braunfels and Seguin was closed near the Las Brisas subdivision at about 2:30 p.m., and Guadalupe County officials were beginning evacuations of some neighborhoods fronting Guadalupe River locations called Meadow Lake and Lake Placid this afternoon.
“It’s areas south of Highway 90,” said Guadalupe County Sheriff Arnold Zwicke. “The houses closest to the water have water right up to them, but none have water in them yet.”
The county’s Emergency Operations Center was opened early in the afternoon. Santa Clara Creek was nearly topping the Interstate 10 bridge near Marion for much of the afternoon. The interstate remained open, but deputies were monitoring the creek and were ready to close the interstate if fresh rains made the creek rise further, Zwicke said at 5 p.m.
Texas 46 between New Braunfels and Seguin was closed in mid-afternoon and remained closed at 5 p.m., although the water had started to recede.
A voluntary evacuation was started in the Glen Cove and Knot Hill subdivisions along the Guadalupe River in Seguin. A couple of homes in Elm Grove subdivision were beginning to flood at about 4:45 p.m., Zwicke said.
He said his department was involved in at least three water rescues, but no one was injured.
About a dozen homes were evacuated in the Stockdale area in Wilson County due to flooding along Cibolo Creek, although not all the residences had water in them. Water was receding in that area by late afternoon.
New Braunfels and Seguin also reported several low water crossings closed to traffic.
Ranch Road 12 was closed early in the afternoon between San Marcos and Wimberley and Hays County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Leroy Opiela advised drivers to stay where they are if possible. Numerous smaller roads in Hays County were closed, and Ranch Road 12 was expected to be cut for hours by a creek near its intersection with Hugo Road.
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