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The Brazos River is expected to crest at a record level of 53.5 feet in Fort Bend County, southeast Texas on Tuesday. Large areas of the county are already under water. (May 31) AP
A man, foreground, checks to make sure everyone made it safely out of a truck that flooded when the three men in the background drove around a closed road barrier along Nichols Sawmill Road and lost control of the vehicle in rising flood water on May 27, 2016 in Magnolia, Texas.(Photo: Michael Ciaglo, AP)
With heavy rain continuing and one river forecast to crest at a record high level, Texas can<span style="color: Red;">*</span>expect little relief on Tuesday from flooding that claimed seven lives over the holiday weekend.
Most of the deaths took place in rural Washington County, Texas, between Austin and Houston, where more than 16.5 inches of rain fell in some places late last week, the Associated Press reported.
Ten<span style="color: Red;">*</span>inches of rain had<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fallen in the past 72 hours over the most impacted areas and<span style="color: Red;">*</span>more rain expected through Friday, the Federal Emergency Management Agency reported Tuesday. More than 100 people had taken refuge in 15 shelters, FEMA said.
The Brazos River, which runs from New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico, should crest at 53.5 feet on Tuesday in Richmond, Texas, the National Weather Service said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>That's three feet higher than the previous record, set during flooding in 1994.
Authorities in Richmond's Fort Bend County, southwest of Houston, rescued at least 40 people over the weekend from floodwaters there.
Dozens of rivers were in flood stage across the central and southern Plains as of Tuesday, the weather service<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
Rounds of heavy thunderstorms will raise the risk of flooding across the south-central U.S. into Friday, AccuWeather said.
The heaviest storms are expected to impact Oklahoma and central and western Texas through Wednesday night, before shifting into eastern Texas, including Houston, by Thursday.
The weather service has placed much of the state of Texas under a flash flood watch. This includes the metro areas of Dallas-Ft. Worth, Austin and San Antonio.
In Rosenberg, Texas, the rising water carried<span style="color: Red;">*</span>water moccasin snakes, ants and debris into neighborhoods of houses and businesses. The water<span style="color: Red;">*</span>surrounded Javier<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Antunez's home on Monday evening and showed no sign of receding, , KHOU-TV reported
Antunez could not wait any longer.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>“What can I do,” he asked. “It’s my house, but I can’t live in here (right now).”
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