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Texas is known for its, sometimes, crazy weather with large temperature swings and shifts from full sunshine to severe thunderstorms all in the same day.
With severe weather possible this afternoon, we have some tips on what to do during certain severe weather situations.
KSAT meteorologists said forecasts currently show the possibility of hail and tornadoes on Monday afternoon, especially east of 281.
Before we get to the tips, however, if you want to stay up-to-date on the weather in the area you can download the KSAT 12 Weather app on your iPhone or Android phone.
There’s also a list of articles at the bottom of this page that can help you during bouts of severe weather.
Here are tips from Ready.gov to help you prepare for some extreme weather situations:
Find safe shelter and do not walk, swim or drive through floodwaters. ‘Turn Around, Don’t Drown’Stay off bridges that are over fast-moving water. Just six inches of moving water is enough to knock a person down.Evacuate if local authorities have told you to do so.Move to higher ground or a higher level of your home if water is rising.Stay where you are if your home is experiencing flooding and wait to be rescued.Do not climb into a closed attic to avoid getting trapped by rising floodwater.Stay inside your car if it is trapped in rapidly moving water and get on the roof if water is rising inside the car.Keep important documents in a waterproof container.
Stay indoors and keep away from windows, glass doors and skylights.Close drapes and blinds to protect against broken glass and flying debris.Keep pets indoors.Take reasonable steps to protect your property from damage — for example, boarding up windows.Don’t leave your vehicle if you’re driving. Pull over and wait out the storm.
Atlantic hurricane season is typically June 1 through Nov. 30. Hurricanes can cause major damage from winds and flooding, however, storm surges are historically the leading cause of damage during a hurricane.
If you live in a mandatory evacuation zone and local officials tell you to evacuate, do so immediately.Go to the highest level of a building if you are trapped by flooding – do not climb into a closed attic.Do not walk, swim or drive through floodwaters.Do not wade in floodwater, which can contain dangerous pathogens that cause illnesses. Underground or downed power lines also can electrically charge the water.Save phone calls for emergencies. Use text messages and social media to communicate with friends and family.
Knowing the signs of a tornado is crucial to helping you prepare. The obvious sign is the rotating, funnel-shaped cloud that most people are familiar with but there could also be an approaching cloud of debris or a loud roar like a freight train, according to Ready.gov.
Identify a safe location in your home, away from windows, and bring the entire family to that space. This includes pets. Avoid outside walls if possible and choose a room on the lower level if you have a multi-story home.Avoid seeking shelter near heavy objects that could fall on top of you.Wear shoes and a bike helmet if you have one available.Crouch as low to the ground as possible, face down and use your arms to protect your neck and head.If you live in a mobile home, seek shelter elsewhere if possible. Many mobile home parks have storm shelters for residents.If you find yourself in your vehicle – do NOT try to outrun the tornado. Find a nearby building and avoid all bridges and underpasses.If you’re unable to find shelter and are outside, find a flat, low location and lay down facing the ground.
If you have experienced damage to your personal property from a weather event, document the damage with photographs and then contact your insurance company for assistance.
Want to know how hail forms? KSAT meteorologist Sarah Spivey explains how it works below:
Be prepared for disastersMAP: Current power outages in Bexar CountyMap: Emergency road closures in San Antonio, Bexar County, Hill Country and TexasAvoid these notorious roadways prone to flooding during heavy rain in San AntonioLIVE: Doppler radarLatest watches/warnings from the National Weather ServiceTips for staying safe while driving in the rainCPS Energy offers power outage tipsHow to protect your car during a hail storm if you don’t have a garage
The San Antonio Book Festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary with an in-person event scheduled for May 21.
The festival was canceled in 2020 and held virtually last year due to COVID-19.
This year, more than 90 local, regional and national authors are scheduled to attend including Julia Glass, Sandra Cisneros, Jericho Brown, Margo Jefferson, Natalie Diaz, Emma Straub and more.
The free event will run from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on May 21 at the San Antonio Central Library and Southwest School of Art in downtown San Antonio.
“For our 10th anniversary, we could not be more thrilled to return to being in person at the Library, which has recently been restored to its glorious ‘enchilada red’ hue,” said SABF’s Executive Director Lilly Gonzalez. “Book festivals foster a sense of community and inspire people to think beyond their individual experiences. Reading is a solitary act, and for the past two years, Texas readers have been plunged deeper into isolation, with books serving as a vital gateway to connecting with the world. It feels extra special to be able to come together for this milestone year.”
The festival typically draws in more than 18,000 attendees for author presentations, panel discussions, book sales, signings and activities.
This year’s festival features notable award-winning national authors including Brown, winner of the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in poetry with “The Tradition”; Cisneros whose works include “The House on Mango Street”, “Marita”, “I Remember You” and more; Glass, author of “Vigil Harbor” and National-Book-Award winner “Three Junes”; and Straub, the New York Times–bestselling author of “The Vacationers”, “All Adults Here” and new novel, ”This Time Tomorrow.”
Texas authors Fernando A. Flores, Sarah Bird and Stephen Harrigan will also be in attendance.
San Antonio author Katie Gutierrez will be featured at the festival as will former Mayor Phil Hardberger, who will be promoting his photography book, “Phil Hardberger Park: A Story in Photographs” and Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff with his latest book, “The Mayor and the Judge: The Inside Story of the War Against COVID.”
There will also be an all-virtual tent featuring some pre-recorded sessions with Margo Jefferson, David Hassler, Tyler Meier, and journalist Joshua Prager.
You can learn more about the festival by visiting sabookfestival.org/.
Here’s the 2022 San Antonio Book Festival Lineup:
Julissa Arce (You Sound Like a White Girl: The Case for Rejecting Assimilation)Dalia Azim (Country of Origin: A Novel)Rebecca Balcárcel (Shine On, Luz Véliz!)David Baldacci (Dream Town: An Archer Novel)Mac Barnett (First Cat in Space Ate Pizza)Chris Barton (Moving Forward: From Space-Age Rides to Civil Rights Sit-Ins with Airman Alton Yates)Ruth Behar (Tía Fortuna’s New Home: A Jewish Cuban Journey)Juli Berwald (Life on the Rocks: Building a Future for Coral Reefs)Sarah Bird (Last Dance on the Starlight Pier: A Novel)David Bowles (The Witch Owl Parliament (Clockwork Curandera #1))(My Two Border Towns)H.W. Brands (Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution)Stephen Briseño (The Notebook Keeper: A Story of Kindness From the Border)Jericho Brown (The Tradition)Monica Brown (Small Room, Big Dreams: The Journey of Julián and Joaquin Castro)Lan Samantha Chang (The Family Chao: A Novel)Wondra Chang (Sonju)Henry Cisneros (The Texas Triangle: An Emerging Power in the Global Economy)Sandra Cisneros (Martita, I Remember You)Cariño Cortez (Camilla La Mágica Makes Tamales)Paloma Cortez (Camilla La Mágica Makes Tamales)Steven L. Davis (Viva Texas Rivers!: Adventures, Misadventures, and Glimpses of Nirvana along Our Storied Waterways)Yohanca Delgado (The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer)Navdeep Dhillon (Sunny G’s Series of Rash Decisions)Natalie Diaz ( Postcolonial Love Poem)William A. Dupont (Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands)Eve L. Ewing (Electric Arches)Kali Fajardo-Anstine (Woman of the Night)Ted Flato (Lake|Flato Houses: Respecting the Land)Fernando Flores (Valleyesque: A Novel)Laura Gao (Messy Roots: A Graphic Memoir of a Wuhanese American)Adriana M. Garcia (Where Wonder Grows)Xavier Garza (Vincent Ventura and the Curse of the Weeping Woman / Vincent Ventura y la Maldición de la Llorona) (La Llorona Can’t Scare Me / La Llorona No Me Asusta)Julia Glass (Vigil Harbor)Raúl Gonzales aka Raúl the Third (The Witch Owl Parliament (Clockwork Curandera #1))Katie Gutierrez (More Than You’ll Ever Know)Phil Hardberger (Phil Hardberger Park: A Story in Photographs)Stephen Harrigan (The Leopard Is Loose: A Novel)Shawn Harris (First Cat in Space Ate Pizza)David Hassler (Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic)Kelly Lytle Hernandez (Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire and Revolution in the Borderlands)Lizz Huerta (The Lost Dreamer)Margo Jefferson (Constructing a Nervous System)Alaya Dawn Johnson (The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer)Mat Johnson (Invisible Things)Varian Johnson (Playing the Cards You’re Dealt)Eliza Kinkz (Goldie’s Guide to Grandchilding)David Liss (The Peculiarities)Danny Lore (The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer)Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich (The Fact of a Body: A Murder and a Memoir)Tyler Meier (Dear Vaccine: Global Voices Speak to the Pandemic)Martha Menchaca (The Mexican American Experience in Texas)Lupe Mendez (Why I Am Like Tequila: Poems)Marcia Mickelson (Where I Belong)Char Miller (West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement)Tomás Q. Morín (Let Me Count the Ways: A Memoir)(Machete: Poems)Evan Morris (Lake|Flato Houses: Respecting the Land)Regina Moya (The Last Butterfly/La Última Mariposa)Alessandra Narváez Varela (Thirty Talks Weird Love)Naomi Shihab Nye (The Turtle of Michigan)Suzanne Olhmann (Shadow Migration: Mapping a Life)Lise Olsen (Code of Silence)Emily X.R. Pan (An Arrow to the Moon)Joe Pappalardo (Red Sky Morning)Jasmine Paul (A Boy, a Budget, and a Dream)Torrey Peters (Detransition, Baby)Mary Laura Philpott (Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives)Joshua Prager (The Family Roe: An American Story)Barbara Ras (The Blues of Heaven: Poems)Justin Reynolds (It’s The End of the World and I’m In My Bathing Suit)Roberto “Dr. Cintli” Rodriguez (Writing 50 Years (más o menos) Amongst the Gringos)Harriet D. Romo (Bridging Cultures: Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands)Ito Romo (The Border is Burning)Renato Rosaldo (The Chasers)Andrea Vocab Sanderson (She Lives in Music)Richard Santos (Trust Me)William Jack Sibley (Here We Go Loop De Loop)ire’ne lara silva (Hibiscus Tacos)Emma Straub (This Time Tomorrow: A Novel)Stacey Swann (Olympus, Texas: A Novel)Natalia Sylvester (Breathe and Count Back from Ten)Carmen Tafolla (The Last Butterfly/La Última Mariposa)Don Tate (Pigskins to Paintbrushes)Sheree Renee Thomas (The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer)Alexandra van de Kamp (Ricochet Script)Vauhini Vara (The Immortal King Rao: A Novel)Ursula Villarreal-Moura (Math for the Self-Crippling)Lance Scott Walker (DJ Screw: A Life in Slow Revolution)Nelson Wolff (The Mayor and the Judge: The Inside Story of the War Against COVID)Jenny Tinghui Zhang (Four Treasures of the Sky)Jennifer Ziegler (Worser)
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A 21-year-old man accused of fatally striking a prominent Galveston doctor as she rode her bicycle last week has been arrested in Seguin.
Logan Llewellyn, of Conroe, was taken into custody by Seguin officers early Sunday morning, according to KPRC, KSAT’s sister station in Houston.
Records with the Guadalupe County Jail show he’s being held on a charge of accident involving death. His bond is set at $200,000, and he will be extradited back to Galveston County.
KPRC reported that authorities located a vehicle possibly belonging to Llewellyn in Seguin and executed a search warrant. The vehicle was transported back to Galveston for investigation.
Llewellyn is accused of fatally striking Dr. Nancy Hughes, 67, as she rode her bicycle in the Cherry Hill area of Seawall Boulevard on Friday morning.
Two people driving in the area discovered her next to her bike at around 6 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The Houston Chronicle reported that Hughes was an internal medicine specialist who graduated from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. Her father, Dr. Edward James Lefeber, also practiced in Galveston.
Her practice, the Internal Medicine Associates of Galveston, called her “the most wonderful, caring doctor, friend and boss.”
San Antonio firefighters responded to a fire at a Northwest Side apartment early Monday morning.
The fire was called in around 1:10 a.m. at the City Summit Apartments in the 4040 block of Medical Drive, not far from Interstate 10 and Datapoint Drive.
Fire officials said they received a call about a smell of burning plastic inside one of the apartments.
Firefighters began to search and after roughly 20 minutes of looking, found a mattress on fire inside one of the apartments. No one was home at the time.
Firefighters knocked down the fire quickly and without incident. The cause of the fire is not currently known.
The San Antonio Police Department, San Antonio Fire Department and EMS all answered the call.
An arson investigation team has since been called out to determine the exact cause. A damage estimate was not given.
A popular San Antonio food festival is returning this fall after a two-year hiatus.
The Barbacoa and Big Red Festival is slated to take place on Saturday, Oct. 8, and Sunday, Oct. 9 at the R&J Music Pavilion, located at 18086 Pleasanton Road.
The festival announced the dates on Sunday, but details about tickets, however, have yet to be released. Organizers said they will announce how to get tickets “soon.”
The entertainment lineup has also not yet been revealed.
The festival was canceled in 2020 and 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2019, the event brought in about 40,000 people.
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