SAN ANTONIO – The damage toll from Friday night\u2019s wicked storm in San Antonio is growing as people across the city continue assessing the damage to their homes.<\/p>\n
Helen Klonek, a homeowner in the Five Points neighborhood north of downtown, said her home was destroyed when a tree fell on it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard it, and then I heard the tree crack. Then my house shook, and I kept hearing the wood come down. And at that time, I was on the floor,\u201d Klonek said.<\/p>\n
Klonek said her house has been condemned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey could tear it down in four days,\u201d Klonek said.<\/p>\n
She is not the only person dealing with storm damage. The West Side saw extensive damage, and nine of Klonek\u2019s neighbors are now staying at an Airbnb.<\/p>\n
The president of the Five Points Neighborhood Association said those neighbors are now in limbo.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot sure yet. We\u2019re trying to get resources for them,\u201d Marcela Espinoza, president of the Five Points Neighborhood Association, said.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Mayor Gina Ortiz Jones said the city is assessing the damage to determine whether it exceeds $10 million, which could make San Antonio eligible for state help.<\/p>\n
Gov. Greg Abbott has directed the Texas Division of Emergency Management to work with local partners to determine whether the damage meets the threshold for federal assistance.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn today\u2019s world, we don\u2019t have the kind of money for devastations like this to happen in our lives,\u201d Klonek said.<\/p>\n
City and county officials are working to connect people with agencies including the San Antonio Food Bank and H-E-B to provide food and gift cards. The governor is also asking residents whose property was damaged to fill out a survey<\/a> to help asses the damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO – The damage toll from Friday night\u2019s wicked storm in San Antonio is growing as people…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-425081","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\/425081","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=425081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}