SEGUIN GAZETTE Sunday, November 1, 2015
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TORNADO
Reports of a twister touching down in Guadalupe County confirmed. Tornado was likely an EF-2.
DRAMATIC RESCUE
First responders find a woman trapped in her collapsed Southridge Estates home.
RAIN
Guadalupe County has received 2 to 4 inches of rain during the weather event that produced flooding.
BATTERED
Derek Kuhn - Seguin Gazette
TORNADO MANGLES 53 HOMES IN COUNTY
WOMAN PULLED FROM THE RUBBLE
AREA’S HEAVY RAINS FORCE EVACUATIONS
Derek Kuhn derek.kuhn@seguingazette.com
Felicia Frazar felicia.frazar@seguingazette.com
Felicia Frazar felicia.frazar@seguingazette.com
GERONIMO — With a down-but-not-out attitude, Guadalupe County residents weathered the early Friday morning storms that battered the area with a tornado. Luckily, no major inju- ONLINE ries were reported during the More coverage, weather event that damaged or including photos destroyed 53 houses, Guadalupe and video, is County Emergency Management online at www. Coordinator David Padula said. SeguinGazette. The state office of emergency com. management confirmed that a tornado touched down south of Geronimo near Huber and Link roads at about 7:15 a.m., Padula said. Though unable to make an official determination,
GUADALUPE COUNTY — A woman was pulled free from her home after it was demolished by a tornado on Friday morning. The victim was trapped in her home in Southridge Estates, just on the Guadalupe County line, after a tornado ripped through the area, damaging or destroying more than 50 homes. York Creek Volunteer Fire Chief Andrew Munk said first responders worked quickly to free her from the rubble that laid on top of her, including one of his firefighters who crawled into the remains and stayed with her. “One of my guys was underneath there for a good 45 minutes in full bunker gear,” he said. “It was a great effort by everybody — South Hays, San
TORNADO - 3A
RESCUE - 5A
GUADALUPE COUNTY — Heavy rainfalls upstream pushed large amounts of water down the San Marcos and Guadalupe rivers, forcing area residents from their homes on Friday. According to the National Weather Service, approximately 2 to 4 inches of rain dropped on Guadalupe County. Coupled with large amounts of precipitation from the Hill Country, Guadalupe County saw three major tributaries — Guadalupe River, San Marcos River and Cibolo Creek — spill over their banks. As soon as they were notified of a possible flooding event, city and county officials began voluntary evacuations in low laying area along the Guadalupe River, which soon turned to mandatory evacuations. Both the Guadalupe River and the San Marcos River crested at about 30 feet above normal level, Guadalupe County Emergency Management Coordinator David Padula said.
ABOVE — Homeowner Roger Ricketts wipes his hands as he surveys the damage to his property following early morning storms that ravaged parts of Geronimo on Friday. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Ricketts, who’s lived in Geronimo for 20 years, said. “We’ve lived out here a long time, and I haven’t seen damage like this before.”
FLOOD - 5A
Residents cast ballots as early voting concludes Steffanie Agnew steffanie.agnew@seguingazette.com
Early voting ended on Friday, and a total of 5,310 Guadalupe County voters cast their ballots. Guadalupe County Elections Administrator Lisa
Adam said that on the ballots were the constitutional amendment election, some city and school special elections as well as some general elections. Among the schools are the bond elections for both Marion and Navarro ISDs.
There were 146 ballots cast in Marion ISD’s bond election, and 36 ballots were cast in Navarro’s. Back in August, the NISD school board voted unanimously to call a bond election for the construction of a new intermediate campus
to be built across the service road from the elementary, add eight classrooms to the elementary campus, overhaul and update two existing science labs at the junior high school, create a new science lab out of an old classroom and to expand as well
as update the high school band hall. In Marion, constituents will decide if they want to upgrade the district’s athletic facilities with the bond election. Proposal 1 covers a bulk of the projects and is estimated to cost approximately
Inside Today’s Seguin Gazette
Obituaries & Death Notices
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Find out how Seguin and Marion fared of the football field.
The obituaries and death notices are on page 7A of today’s edition and include Jacob Ceniseros, 14; Frank Bryan Hunter Sr., 66; Eugene “Pete” Peterson, 78; and Billye Barr Hall, 89.
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