At Least 5 Killed in Texas Flooding
Pastor Dale Morgan
At Least 5 Killed in Texas Flooding*
Saturday May 26, 2007 2:16 AM
By ANABELLE GARAY
Associated Press Writer
DALLAS (AP) - Two days of heavy storms and flooding have killed five
people in central Texas, and bad weather was expected to continue
pounding the Plains over the holiday weekend.
A man remained missing in Texas after his sport utility vehicle was
swept away in a swollen creek, officials said. Several other people were
rescued, and Gov. Rick Perry activated search and rescue teams.
Three people died and another was missing in Killeen, police said. The
bodies of two brothers, ages 5 and 6, were found early Friday in a
submerged SUV. The boys were riding with their mother and two siblings
when their vehicle was wiped off the road Thursday into a gully.
Rescuers saved the mother and two siblings, but the swift-moving water
rose too quickly for rescuers to help the boys trapped inside, said
Garland Potvin, a Bell County justice of the peace.
Elsewhere in Killeen, the body of a 20-year-old man caught in rushing
water was found lodged along a culvert, Potvin said.
Outside Copperas Cove, a husband and wife driving home died late
Thursday after attempting to cross floodwaters, said Bill Price, a
Coryell County justice of the peace.
Authorities were searching near Fredericksburg for Edgar Garcia, who was
washed away in his SUV during storms that have dumped about 8 inches of
rain in the area since Thursday.
Lt. Jim Judd of the Gillespie County sheriff's office said about 30
people spent Friday looking for Garcia, who called his mother after he
drove around a barricade blocking a swollen creek and got stuck.
Perry activated National Guard troops to be deployed in Waco, Austin and
San Antonio for the weekend.
In Kansas, rivers and creeks continued to rise Friday in the central and
south-central parts of the state following a downpour two days earlier.
The most serious flooding was expected along the Arkansas River in
Harvey County, the National Weather Service said.
Floodwaters closed off all roads leading into the central Kansas town of
New Cambria, Saline County emergency management officials said Friday
afternoon. Rising rivers also covered many of the streets in the small
town east of Salina.
At least 60 homes and businesses were flooded but no injuries were
reported, and only voluntary evacuations had been ordered.
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