BRENHAM, Texas (AP) – At least one person was dead and three others were missing after torrential thunderstorms caused flooding in Texas, officials said as they braced for the possibility of more rain over the long Memorial Day weekend.
“It’s not going to take very much rain to get us in those flood stages again,” Washington County Judge John Brieden said Friday.
The forecasts through the holiday weekend called for scattered or isolated thunderstorms in Central and Southeast Texas. But officials say they will be monitoring local rivers and waterways, which could rise out of their banks in the coming days due to the heavy rains.
Brieden said that in Washington County, located between Austin and Houston, one person drowned and another person was missing after their vehicle was swept away. Lisa Block, an emergency services spokeswoman in Travis County, which includes Austin, said officials there were still searching for two people missing from a vehicle on a flooded roadway.
Mobile homes washed away in the flooding and multiple houses had water inside, Brieden said. He said there had been more than 50 water rescues from houses and vehicles since the rains started Thursday morning.