Weeks before the devastating flood in Kerrville would put a national spotlight on rural Texas’ underfunded flood warning systems, experts in San Antonio — considered a regional leader on the issue — were also caught off guard by rapidly-rising water.

Unusually heavy rain on June 12 caused more than a dozen vehicles to be swept off of San Antonio’s Perrin Beitel access road into the creek below it on the city’s Northeast Side. Search and rescue operations were also concentrated at Leon Creek near Highway 90 and Callaghan Road.

On this week’s episode of the bigcitysmalltown podcast , producer Cory Ames joins San Antonio River Authority (SARA) Deputy General Manager Rick Trefzer and Brendan Gibbons, board chair of River Aid San Antonio, to discuss how even some of the state’s most sophi

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