Downtown Flooding. Flooding Disrupts Downtown Businesses, Royal Blue Grocery Forced to Close Amid Rising Water Levels

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Flooding Disrupts Downtown Businesses, Royal Blue Grocery Forced to Close Amid Rising Water Levels

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Hey y'all, this is Gary downtown on 3rd Street, 3rd and Lavaca. It's Friday afternoon, 2:56 p.m. May 15th and uh we've got a flooding situation. So just following the hose here… I'm not sure if it's a sprinkle line that's let go, but uh, there's about 1 inch of standing water, uh, in the Royal Blue. Let's see, “Royal Blue is closed due to flooding.” Hey y'all, it's Thursday, May 15th, 3 p.m. This is Gary. I'm downtown, 3rd and Lavaca, and we got us a flooding situation. Let's see where this hose line takes us. And unfortunately, it seems that our friends at Royal Blue have about 1 inch of standing water in here. As you can see, they’re closed due to flooding. Um, I'm not sure if it's a sprinkler line that's let go or whatever it is. Uh, yeah, there's a lot of water pooling in the bike lane as well as in the store.