Search resumes for those missing in Texas floodwaters

Motorists are stranded along I-45 along North Main in Houston after storms flooded the area, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Overnight heavy rains caused flooding closing some portions of major highways in the Houston area.
Motorists are stranded along I-45 along North Main in Houston after storms flooded the area, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Overnight heavy rains caused flooding closing some portions of major highways in the Houston area.

WIMBERLEY, Texas — Recovery teams resumed the search Tuesday for 12 people who are missing after a rain-swollen river carried a Texas vacation home off its foundation and slammed it into a bridge downstream.

In Houston, authorities recovered three more bodies from the floodwaters — two of them in the city and a third in a vehicle on Interstate 45. That raises to 11 the number of people killed by the storms in Oklahoma and Texas.

The water rose overnight after the area received about 11 inches of rain, much of it in a six-hour period.

Between 500 and 700 homes in surrounding Harris County have sustained some level of damage, according to county flood control district spokeswoman Kim Jackson.

Houston Mayor Annise Parker said officials in the nation's fourth-largest city would be "on the alert" as the bayous rise.

The search for the missing picked up after a holiday weekend of storms dumped record rainfall on the Plains and Midwest.

Read Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.

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