The Nation - News from Sept. 9, 1987
A tropical depression lost its punch but still caused flooding in the Carolinas and Virginia, while residents of southern Texas cleaned up damage from near hurricane-force winds that toppled a 500-foot communications tower in San Antonio and injured 10 people. Flash flood watches were issued for parts of Virginia, the state hit hardest by the rains. Flooding washed out as many as 50 roads in that state Monday. The tropical depression, which formed Monday evening off the South Carolina coast, moved inland overnight and began to weaken. By Tuesday morning, the center of the depression was well inland over north-central North Carolina.
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