This story was last updated at 8:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2026.
San Antonio police said Sunday they are investigating two deaths related to Friday night’s severe storm.
In one incident, two people were caught in rushing water in San Pedro Creek north of downtown. One made it out safely. The other, a 46-year-old woman, was found dead Saturday night after emergency crews searched the area.
Acting Police Chief Jesse Salame said the medical examiner is reviewing the circumstances of her death, which is being investigated as a drowning.
Police are also investigating a possible drowning involving a man in his 50s who was found at Woodlawn Park Sunday morning.
Recovery efforts continued Monday as crews cleared storm damage and CPS Energy worked to restore electricity.
As of 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, 145 CPS Energy customers remained without power, down from 112,000 at the height of the storm. CPS Energy said it restored power to more than 85,000 customers Sunday alone.
CPS Energy Interim President and CEO Frank Almaraz said some customers will remain without power into Tuesday, but the utility expects to complete restoration by Tuesday night.
Almaraz said restoration work is becoming more complicated as crews move from large outages to smaller, localized problems.
“As we get smaller and smaller, the number gets harder and harder because it turns into individual outages where there may be just two or three people, and there's many, many of those," Almaraz said Sunday.
Three resilience hubs remain open Monday at the Gilbert Garza Community Center, Normoyle Community Center and Northeast Senior Center. The hubs provide cooling, power, device charging, Wi-Fi and other basic needs. Sixteen residents and two pets stayed overnight Sunday. VIA is continuing to provide free rides to the hubs and other cooling locations.
The city also announced extra garbage collection Monday in two storm-affected neighborhoods and extended its waiver of brush-disposal fees through Saturday, Sept. 5. Meals and cold water were being provided Sunday at the San Juan Brady Center, 2307 S. Calaveras St.
Our Lady of the Lake University canceled Monday classes and closed its San Antonio campus because of storm-related outages, damage and cleanup. The university said it will announce by 3 p.m. Monday whether campus operations and classes will resume Tuesday.
San Antonio College was open Monday.
San Antonio, South San and Edgewood ISDs operated on normal schedules Monday.
Southwest ISD said Monday afternoon that power has been restored at all campuses, including Medio Creek and Sun Valley elementary schools. All district schools will resume classes and operate on their regular schedules Tuesday.
SAISD said district teams inspected campuses Sunday as CPS Energy continued working to restore service. Edgewood said meals were served as usual Monday and counselors were available for students who needed additional support. Southwest ISD said resources are available for families still dealing with storm damage or power outages.
See real-time power outage information: CPS outage map
CPS Energy Interim President and CEO Frank Almaraz warned that some customers could remain without electricity for several days.
“We have down lines, broken poles and fallen trees. Some of these outages are going to extend several days,” Almaraz said in a Saturday press conference. “So please begin making plans now.”
At Taqueria Chapala Jalisco off McCullough Avenue north of downtown, dozens of people without power gathered Saturday to cool off and charge their phones and other devices. A hostess said the restaurant had been packed throughout the day with people looking for relief from homes without electricity.
Cindy Rodriguez-Martinez, a North Side resident, said she was still shaken by Friday night’s storm. The power went out at her theater just before the second act of her sold-out play, “Aye, No!,” was about to begin. The drive home was even more unsettling.
“Then on the way home that was the scariest thing ever, because I was traveling in all black,” Rodriguez-Martinez said. “As I’m driving, I'm praying for everything.”
She said she encountered downed power lines, flooded streets and car crashes along the way. Her daughter, Nicki Martinez, had planned to move into a new home Saturday night with help from friends after their shifts. With her mother still without electricity, the family now planned to leave behind a mattress so Rodriguez-Martinez and her grandson could stay with Martinez in air conditioning.
Other families were trying to salvage food before it spoiled. Yesenia Cortez, who was cooling off at the restaurant with her three young children, said she had already thrown out the contents of her refrigerator. At the time, families were still waiting to learn whether schools would open Monday, with several districts not announcing their plans until Sunday.
“If they don't have school, then I don't really know what I'm gonna do for work because I don’t have anybody to be watching them,” Cortez said.
Nearby, Cleo Booker carried a small bag of ice back to his apartment, hoping to save meat from his refrigerator. Booker said he has lived in San Antonio since 2010 and had experienced brief outages before, but never anything approaching several days.
“It’s never happened,” Booker said. “When we have heavy rain through here or heavy wind, light might go off, but it'll be right back on in about an hour or so.”
In a preliminary storm report, the National Weather Service said widespread tree damage occurred in a corridor stretching from northeast Bexar County through central San Antonio into southwest Bexar County. Emergency managers also reported scattered damage to fences, power lines, power poles and some roofs.
On the West Side, traffic lights were ripped from their supports, and residents worked Saturday morning to remove fallen trees from their homes. Damage was also reported north of downtown. San Antonio College canceled Saturday classes following the storm.
Diana Amador said conditions were calm when she left her West Side home earlier Friday evening, but she returned to darkness and a fallen tree blocking her way inside.
“As I was coming down towards my home, it was pitch black. It was very dark. I've never seen this before,” Amador said. “And then when I got here, I saw the tree collapse, and then I couldn't go in.”
Amador said she had seen no rain where she was and didn’t expect to return to that kind of damage.
See Bexar County road closures: BexarFlood.org
The Weather Service said the damage was consistent with straight-line winds. Measured wind speeds reached 50 to 65 mph, with pockets of winds around 75 mph estimated from radar and the resulting damage. A peak gust of 77 mph was recorded at San Antonio International Airport.
Radar recap of storms last night in San Antonio. Brighter whites on velocity (right) is where the core of the damaging winds occurred. At 2000 feet radar was estimating 85 mph winds. At the surface, winds of 55-65 mph were measured, and damage indicated 75 mph gusts were likely. pic.twitter.com/gGRi4cHe6R
— NWS Austin/San Antonio (@NWSSanAntonio) August 29, 2026
People whose medical equipment is affected by an outage should call 911 in an emergency or 311 for nonemergency help. Residents can also submit nonemergency requests through the city’s online 311 portal or the 311SA mobile app.
Resilience hubs, cooling centers and free rides
Libraries and community centers are also available as daytime cooling locations during regular operating hours.
Three resilience hubs remain open Monday at the Gilbert Garza Community Center, Normoyle Community Center and Northeast Senior Center. Sixteen residents and two pets stayed overnight Sunday.
VIA Metropolitan Transit is providing free transportation to cooling centers and the resilience hubs. Anyone who needs transportation assistance can call 311 or 210-207-6000.
Crews are continuing to clear downed trees and debris from streets and other public rights-of-way. The city said crews have removed 377 downed trees, with 30 still pending. Solid Waste crews have also collected more than 550 tons of storm-damaged brush.
Residents were also pitching in. Michelle Carrillo said neighbors in her West Side area came together Saturday to cut up fallen trees and help one another clean up.
“We've had a lot of people from the community come out. All the neighbors have come out to help cut this tree down, stack it up, worry about everybody's house,” Carrillo said. “One neighbor will help another.”
Carrillo said Saturday that her family had been told their electricity could remain out for two or three days.
The Bitters Brush Facility at 1800 Wurzbach Parkway is waiving disposal fees for storm-related brush through Monday, Sept. 7.
Crews will also provide an extra garbage collection Monday for residents in the Five Points and Beacon Hill neighborhoods. Residents should place eligible food waste, debris and other garbage in their brown carts at the curb by 7 a.m. Regular Wednesday collection will continue as scheduled.
Storm damage also continues to affect traffic signals. As of 1 p.m. Monday, 13 signals remained in flash mode, 62 were potentially malfunctioning and 35 intersections had signal damage. Drivers should treat flashing-red or nonfunctioning signals as four-way stops.
Residents are also being asked to report storm damage to homes, businesses and agricultural property through the state’s iSTAT damage survey. Officials said the reports help emergency managers assess the extent of the damage but do not replace an insurance claim or guarantee disaster assistance.
CPS Energy is urging residents to take precautions during prolonged outages, including operating generators outdoors and away from doors and windows, treating all downed power lines as live, and keeping refrigerator and freezer doors closed as much as possible.
As outages continued, some families tried to use food before it spoiled. Annalisa Rodriguez gathered with about 15 relatives Saturday for a cookout after several family members lost power.
“The meat I have in a cooler that I’m taking to my family,” Rodriguez said. “We have no choice because a lot of it thawed out.”
She said she had already thrown out dairy products and expected to lose more food if power was not restored soon.
Joey Palacios, Jerry Clayton, Camille Phillips, Yvette Benavides and Dan Katz of Texas Public Radio, and Eleanor Fitzgerald of the San Antonio Report, contributed to this report.
