A dozen people missing after flooding in Texas

SAN MARCOS, Texas — The same storm system that hit the Mid-South on Sunday pummeled central Texas. The Blanco River swelled 26 feet in under and hour, washing away homes and forcing families to evacuate. Three people have been confirmed dead, and officials in Hays County said at least a dozen people are missing. To make matters worse, that line of storms showed no signs of letting up for some parts of the region. A Corpus Christi church said five of its members are among eight people missing after a vacation home where several families were staying was swept away by a flash flood. Former Nueces County Commissioner Joe McComb said his 36-year-old son, Jonathan, was hospitalized in San Antonio with multiple injuries after the house was knocked off its foundation and carried down the raging river Sunday. It struck a bridge and then began breaking up. Jonathan McComb’s wife and their two children are still missing, reported CBS affiliate KEYE-TV in Austin. Three deaths were blamed on the storms Saturday and Sunday, including two in Oklahoma and one in Texas, where a man’s body was recovered from a flooded area along the Blanco River. The weather system was expected to linger over a large swath of the region Monday, putting a damper on some Memorial Day plans. Among the worst-affected communities were Wimberley and San Marcos, which are in Central Texas along the Blanco River in the increasingly popular corridor between Austin and San Antonio. “It looks pretty bad out there,” Hays County emergency management coordinator Kharley Smith said of Wimberley, where an estimated 350 to 400 homes were destroyed and where three people remained missing late Sunday. “We do have whole streets with maybe one or two houses left on them and the rest are just slabs.” “It sounded like a highway last night with water, refrigerators, equipment, everything rushing by,” CBS affiliate KHOU-TV in Houston quotes one Wimberley resident as saying.