SAN ANTONIO-The combination of the tropical storm force winds and torrential rainfall left a big mess behind. With six to seven inches of rain the last 24 hours you have flooded areas like Olmos Basin Park. Together with destructive winds, there is a lot to clean up across the city.
City public work crews were out in full force today cleaning up hundreds of trees that were blocking streets. One huge Arizona Ash at Laurelwood and Rosehill fell late yesterday blocking the width of the street. Surprising everyone on the street.
Rebecca Bustamante who lives on the street told us, " It was like a hurricane here yesterday. We had torrential rain pouring down."
The city says with most storms there will be a few trees down, but with this one, it was different.
"The wind was so strong that we did see a huge increase in trees that were knocked down," said April Hernandez with public works. " and we're trying to respond as fast as we can."
The city says there were some 250 calls for downed trees blocking roads. Meanwhile, whole areas of the city were still without power today including Holmes High School on the northwest side. They've had blackouts before, but not like this one. Classes were cancelled by 10 this morning.
Holmes High School Principal Dennis Ann Strong said, " this one we kept thinking the power wold come on in the morning, that we'd be able to have school as usual, but that has not happened yet."
Parents were contacted and either rode the bus home or were picked up by family. Classes should resume Thursday, but at last count is afternoon, a few thousand C.P.S. Energy customers were still waiting for power to return. Also taking time, will be the receding of floodwaters. At Olmos Basin Park it will be taking days before cars can get through here again.
