FORT WORTH, Texas — At least two people died in fast-moving floodwaters in Texas as freezing rain and flooding pummeled the central U.S. Friday.
Authorities said freezing rain and high winds also caused at least two fatal traffic accidents in western Kansas on Thursday.
In North Texas, where more than 4 inches of rain overnight in the Dallas-Forth Worth area pushed the annual rainfall total into the record books, at least two people have died after being washed away in the deep, rapid floodwaters. A third person remains missing.
Firefighters in Garland, Texas, found a body inside a submerged Hyundai Elantra early Friday, fire department spokesman Merrill Balanciere said. That driver's name hasn't been released.
Crews found a second body — that of a 33-year-old woman — just after 8 a.m. on Friday, downstream from her vehicle just west of Forth Worth. Sandra Jones' car was washed off the road in waters flowing 10 to 12 feet above the banks of Rock Creek, Johnson County Sheriff's Office spokesman Tim Jones said.
Firefighters in Fort Worth are waiting for the water to recede before deploying a dive team to continue searching for another woman whose car was swept away in a flood, according to spokesman Kyle Falkner.