SAN ANTONIO – Some families say their power is back on after Friday night’s storms.<\/p>\n
While their lights are back on, the storms left behind more damage than they know what to do with.<\/p>\n
While their lights are back on, the storms left behind more damage than they know what to do with.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The aftermath has left a mess along several west-side streets.<\/p>\n
“I heard some bad, hard wind, like wind blowing hard and raining hard, and lightning,” said one woman named Carmen. A tree was knocked over on her property. “I said, ‘Oh, my God’, I started praying for the houses not to get blown away.”<\/p>\n
Heavy rain and whipping winds knocked over several trees and powerlines; leaving tens of thousands without power for days.<\/p>\n
“The debris on Santiago St. is neatly stacked away now. People in the neighborhood say the damage left behind will be expensive to fix.<\/p>\n
“The roof, they had leaks and there was just a bunch of debris everywhere,” said Monica Lara. She also lives near Santiago Rd. “Once we left, like at two in the morning, there was a bunch of trees with roots split in half.”<\/p>\n
Leaks left behind moldy sheetrock and damaged roofs; forcing Monica and her five children to live in an Airbnb while they figure out where to turn next.<\/p>\n
She and some of her neighbors are trying to manage it all without the help of insurance.<\/p>\n
“I have cancer,” Carmen said. “I said oh my God. I don’t even got money right now for this.”<\/p>\n
“We’re just taking it day-by-day and seeing,” Lara said. “We do need a lot of work in the house now, a lot more than we thought we needed.”<\/p>\n
They’re now looking for help wherever they can.<\/p>\n
We’ve reached out to District 5 Councilwoman Teri Castillo’s office for answers on what residents can do in the meantime.<\/p>\n
We’ll let you know when we hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – Some families say their power is back on after Friday night’s storms. While their lights…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-422491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}