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To: mikegi
I can imagine the flooding that is going on with this much rain and still raining!

We received 10 inches of rain one day in Boerne outside San Antonio in about a six hour period and at the high school they took a canoe and paddled around the campus. Roads were flooded all over town.

I cannot imagine what some of the roads that always flood must look like down there. Just hope the driver's don't drive around the roadblocks like they usually do.

Have never seen it rain as hard as I have when we lived in the San Antonio area.
5 posted on 07/01/2002 7:48:39 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: PhiKapMom
My father was born in Boerne. My family moved back to Austin/San Antonio after he retired from the USAF. We lived there for most of the 70's and 80's. That's where I basically grew up.

The most rain I remember in one day was around 5" in 1980 or so, when we lived north of SA (Nacogdoches Rd and Thousand Oaks, to be precise). A car was washed off a road a few hundred yards from our apartment and the driver died. It was the first day of school.

As teenagers, we would go to the "Chute" in New Braunfels after a heavy rain. The flood water moved so fast through the chute that we would be propelled to the opposite bank in seconds. It was like a cannon. We were idiots!

10 posted on 07/01/2002 8:01:13 PM PDT by mikegi
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