The Rural Texas Towns Buried Under River Mud - Daily Beast

WIMBERLEY, Texas — It was midafternoon on Saturday, May 30, when search and rescue teams announced they had, for the second time that day, found the body of an adult female near storm-ravaged Wimberley in the beautiful and sprawling Hill Country... The previous day, an adult male body was also recovered. This brought the number of recovered bodies in Hays County, the district that houses Wimberley, San Marcos (another hard-hit city), and part of the Texas capital, Austin, to eight. There are still six people last seen in Wimberley listed as missing. “It’s just so difficult for us, because this is a small community,” Susan Myers, a 61-year-old resident of Wimberley, told The Daily Beast while coordinating relief efforts at the Cypress Creek Church. The grisly discoveries came a week after the Blanco River that borders Wimberley rapidly rose to more than 40 feet, taking the community by surprise and levying destruction as a large weather system developed across Central and Southern Texas. According to a statement issued by Hays County, preliminary estimates place the county-wide cost at $32. 7 million. Hays County expects these numbers to increase. Myers was reflecting on another flashflood that many remembered as the worst in the town’s history, until this one. Walking down residential streets in the sleepy vacation town, one sees all the earthly possessions of entire families caked in mud and discarded on the curbside. Source: www.thedailybeast.com