San Marcos(Texas) : Record rainfall wreaked havoc across a swath of the central US, causing flash floods in normally dry riverbeds, spawning tornadoes and forcing at least 2,000 people in Texas from their homes.
Tornadoes struck, severely damaging an apartment complex in Houston, Texas on Sunday. A firefighter in Oklahoma was swept to his death while trying to rescue people from high water and a woman in Tulsa died in a traffic-related crash.
In Texas, a man’s body was recovered from a flooded area along the Blanco River, which rose 26 feet (8 meters) in just one hour and left piles of wreckage 20 feet (6 meters) high, authorities said.
“It looks pretty bad out there,” said Hays County emergency management coordinator Kharley Smith, describing the destruction in Wimberley, a community that is part of a fast-growing corridor between Austin and San Antonio. “We do have whole streets with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs,” she said, noting late yesterday that three people from
Wimberley still weren’t
accounted for.
