CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – A church in Corpus Christi, Texas, says five of its parishioners are among a dozen people missing after flash flooding damaged hundreds of homes.
A vacation home where several families were staying was swept away on the rain-swollen Blanco River.
Former Nueces County Commissioner Joe McComb says his son’s wife and their two children are among the missing.
McComb tells the Corpus Christi Caller-Times that his 36-year-old son, Jonathan, is 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.
The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd says five members of two families from the Corpus Christi church also were in the house and are missing.
Four others inside also managed to escape.