Two people pilot a boat
through the flooded Brazos River on Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Rosenberg,
Texas. (Jon Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
HOUSTON— Authorities in central Texas have found two more
bodies along flooded streams, bringing the death toll from flooding in
the state to six.
It was unclear Sunday whether a body found in Travis County near
Austin is one of the two people still missing in Texas. An 11-year-old
boy was still missing in central Kansas, too.
The latest flooding victim identified by authorities was a woman who
died when the car she was riding in was swept from the street by the
flooded Cypress Creek about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Kendall County sheriff’s
Cpl. Reid Daly said.ads
Sixth
Street is impassible due to rising flood waters from the Brazos River
Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Rosenberg, Texas. (Jon Shapley/Houston
Chronicle via AP)
The car, with three occupants, was in Comfort, about 45 miles north
of San Antonio. The driver made it to shore, and a female passenger was
rescued from a tree. But Daly said 23-year-old Florida Molima was
missing until her body was found around 11 a.m. Sunday about 8 miles
downstream. She becomes the sixth flood-related death in Texas this
Memorial Day weekend.
In Bandera, about 45 miles northwest of San Antonio, an estimated 10
inches of rain overnight led to the rescues of nine people. The rain
caused widespread damage, including the collapse of the roof of the
Bandera Bulletin, the weekly newspaper, KSAT-TV in San Antonio reported.
Photos from the area showed campers and trailers stacked against each
other, but no injuries were reported.
Torrential rains caused heavy flash flooding in some parts of the
U.S. over the last few days, and led to numerous evacuations in
southeast Texas, including two prisons. But the threat of severe weather
has lessened over the long Memorial Day holiday for many places, though
Tropical Depression Bonnie continued to bring rain and wind to North
and South Carolina.
Texas
Department of Criminal Justice prisoners are evacuated from the Terrell
and Stringfellow Units Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Rosharon, Texas. (Jon
Shapley/Houston Chronicle via AP)
Near Austin, a crew aboard a county STAR Flight helicopter found a
body Sunday on the north end of a retention pond near the Circuit of the
Americas auto racing track, which is close to where two people were
reported to have been washed away by a flash flood early Friday, Travis
County sheriff’s spokesman Lisa Block said. The body still must be
recovered and no identification has been made.
To the southeast along the rain-swollen Brazos River near Houston,
prison officials evacuated about 2,600 inmates from two prisons to other
state prisons because of expected flooding, Texas Department of
Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said. Inmates in a low-level
security camp at a third prison in the area were being moved to the main
prison building, Clark said.
A
home under construction is flooded as the Brazos River continues to
rise Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Rosenberg, Texas. (Jon Shapley/Houston
Chronicle via AP)
All three prisons are in coastal Brazoria County, where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
“TDCJ officials continue to monitor the situation and are working
with our state partners as the river level rises,” Clark said, noting
that additional food and water has been delivered to prisons that are
getting the displaced inmates and sandbags have been filled and
delivered to the prisons where flooding is anticipated.
In Kansas, the search for the missing 11-year-old continued Sunday
and expanded beyond the swollen creek he fell into Friday night,
according to Wichita Fire Department battalion chief Scott Brown. “We
are more in body-recovery mode than rescue,” Brown said Saturday night.
Four people died from flooding in rural Washington County, Texas,
located between Austin and Houston, where more than 16.5 inches of rain
fell in some places Thursday and Friday. The bodies of two missing
motorists were found Saturday in separate parts of the county, according
to Judge John Brieden.
Tropical Depression Bonnie reached the South Carolina coast early
Sunday, bringing heavy rain and rough tides to an area packed with
tourists for the Memorial Day weekend. Forecasters say up to 8 inches of
rain have fallen in parts of southern South Carolina. About 3 inches of
rain fell in Charleston in 24 hours and more is expected, according to
the National Weather Service.
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