HOUSTON -- Authorities in central Texas found two more bodies along flooded streams Sunday, bringing the death toll from flooding in the state to six.
It's unclear whether a body found in Travis County near Austin is one of the two people still missing in Texas. An 11-year-old boy is still missing in central Kansas, too.
The latest flooding victim identified by authorities was a woman who died when the car she was riding in was swept from the street by the flooded Cypress Creek about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Kendall County sheriff's Cpl. Reid Daly said.
The car, with three occupants, was in Comfort, about 45 miles north of San Antonio. The driver made it to shore, and a female passenger was rescued from a tree. But Daly said 23-year-old Florida Molima was missing until her body was found about 11 a.m. Sunday about 8 miles downstream.
In Bandera, about 45 miles northwest of San Antonio, an estimated 10 inches of rain overnight forced officials to rescue nine people. The rain caused widespread damage, including the collapse of the roof of the Bandera Bulletin, the weekly newspaper, KSAT-TV in San Antonio reported. Photos from the area showed campers and trailers stacked against one another, but no injuries were reported.
Near Austin, a crew aboard a county Shock Trauma Air Rescue Flight helicopter found a body Sunday on the north end of a retention pond near the Circuit of the Americas auto racing track, which is close to where two people were reported to have been washed away by a flash flood early Friday, Travis County sheriff's spokesman Lisa Block said. The body still must be recovered, and no identification has been made.
To the southeast along the rain-swollen Brazos River near Houston, prison officials evacuated about 2,600 inmates from two prisons to other state prisons because of expected flooding, Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokesman Jason Clark said. Inmates in a low-level security camp at a third prison in the area are being moved to the main prison building, Clark said, noting that additional food and water has been delivered to prisons that are getting the displaced inmates, and sandbags have been filled and delivered to the prisons where flooding is anticipated.
All three prisons are in coastal Brazoria County, where the river empties into the Gulf of Mexico.
Another prison that's about 70 miles northwest of Houston saw a brawl between inmates and correctional officers on Saturday that began when flooding caused a power failure. Clark estimated that as many as 50 inmates in the 1,300-inmate prison were involved.
In Kansas, the search for the missing 11-year-old resumed Sunday and expanded beyond the swollen creek he fell into Friday night, according to Scott Brown, a Wichita Fire Department battalion chief.
"We are more in body-recovery mode than rescue," Brown said Saturday night.
Four people died from flooding in rural Washington County, Texas, located between Austin and Houston, where more than 16.5 inches of rain fell in some places Thursday and Friday. The bodies of two missing motorists were found Saturday in separate parts of the county, according to Judge John Brieden.
The threat of severe weather has lessened for the Memorial Day holiday for many places, though Tropical Depression Bonnie reached the South Carolina coast early Sunday before stalling just inland, bringing heavy rain and rough tides.
The National Hurricane Center said the center of the storm made landfall just east of Charleston, S.C., on the Isle of Palms about 8:30 a.m. Sunday. By the afternoon, it had stalled just northwest of Charleston, with heavy rains wrapping around north and west of the storm's center, forecasters said.
Up to 8 inches of rain have fallen in parts of southern South Carolina, according to the National Weather Service. A flash flood warning was issued for Jasper County, where the southbound lanes of busy Interstate 95 were closed for at least 10 hours because of high water.
The heavy rain could continue for a few days. The Hurricane Center said Bonnie's center will meander up the coast through Tuesday, bringing the heavy rain and heavy surf with it.
Rescue crews in Carolina Beach south of Wilmington, N.C., are looking for a 21-year-old man who disappeared Saturday evening while swimming with two friends who made it back to shore safely, according to the Carolina Beach Police Department.
But for the most part, the rain was just an unwelcome visitor over the long holiday weekend.
Caretta Coffee Co. sits a short walk from the beach on Hilton Head Island. Owner Connie Inggs said business was much slower Saturday as vacationers stayed in. But it picked up Sunday as they looked for something to do, even as the downpours continued.
"It's a very tropical morning," Inggs said. "Why not sit back and wait for the weather to get better?"
Information for this article was contributed by Terry Wallace of The Associated Press.
A Section on 05/30/2016