Two Found Dead After Flooding In San Antonio

A man and female who were said to beryllium friends were recovered dormant aft overnight flooding successful San Antonio, nan city's constabulary main said Monday.

An acquaintance reported nan brace missing, and different friend recovered nan woman's assemblage Monday, Chief William McManus told NBC connection WOAI of San Antonio.

The man was recovered astir 100 yards downstream on a conception of Salado Creek adjacent San Antonio International Airport, nan main said.

San Antonio received much than 4 inches of rainfall by 7 a.m. Monday, according to National Weather Service data. Two inches fell wrong a three-hour span precocious Sunday, nan upwind work numbers show.

"Both of them, we believe, sewage washed up successful nan h2o past nighttime aliases this morning," McManus said. "Apparently, they were friends."

He added that nan 2 "appear to be" homeless.

Their identities person not been disclosed, and nan Bexar County Medical Examiner's Office did not instantly respond to a petition for accusation Monday evening.

McManus said nan deaths are nether investigation.

Salado Creek northbound of downtown is described by nan main arsenic a location of bum encampments and tunnels. The metropolis has transformed immoderate of nan historical creek, known arsenic nan location of a cardinal conflict against Mexican forces successful 1842, into a "greenway" for hikers and pedestrians.

The region was nether a national flood watch overnight and into nan morning, pinch forecasters saying that rainstorms were whipped up by a "frontal boundary" betwixt 2 aerial masses, 1 warm, 1 cool — a classical look for downpours.

The region was expected to stay barren done Friday aft nan past of nan rain-producing clouds move eastbound connected Monday, nan upwind work said.