Angel Richards' husband, Stevie, was one of 11 people who were carried away by floodwaters near Loop 410 and Perrin Beitel nearly one year ago.
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Stevie Richards, 42, was among 11 people whose cars were swept up by a sudden wall of water near Loop 410 and Perrin Beitel.
“It’s very challenging for me because it still seems like just yesterday it happened,” Richards said. “But with my faith and my belief, I just hold onto that to try to make it through the day. ”Richards said the morning began with a phone call from her husband, initially saying he had a change of heart about going to work and was heading home.
She could hear the situation grow more and more dire over the phone, eventually ending with the call disconnecting.
“My husband was my life. Literally. And with him being gone, things are just different, totally different. It’s never going to the be the same,” she said.
A native of Houston, she said flooded roads were nothing new to her or her husband.
“I feel like nothing was done to prevent something like this from happening, so it makes me angry,” she said. Although it appears some repairs have been made in the area, a bridge near Perrin Beitel and Vicar Street that was damaged by the careening cars remains in ruins.
“I can’t close my eyes because I’m driving,” she said. “I’ll turn away. ” With her faith, she said she has slowly been working through her anger and feels she now is taking steps toward living in peace.
“I had to actually take a road to get to this point because that life-changing morning, yeah, it just does not go away,” she said. Another thing that Richards said has helped with her healing is holding onto the good memories she has of her husband. Takeaways from NWS report on June 12 Beitel Creek flood: Record rain, timeline and what ’exacerbated the situation’Katrina Webber joined KSAT 12 in December 2009. She reports for Good Morning San Antonio.
Katrina was born and raised in Queens, NY, but after living in Gulf Coast states for the past decade, she feels right at home in Texas. It's not unusual to find her singing karaoke or leading a song with her church choir when she's not on-air. Sal Salazar is a photojournalist at KSAT 12. Before coming to KSAT in 1998, he worked at the Fox affiliate in San Antonio.
Sal started off his career back in 1995 for the ABC Affiliate in Lubbock and has covered many high-profile news events since. In his free time, he enjoys spending time at home, gaming and loves traveling with his wife.
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