US floods kill 3 people, destroy 100s of homes
Flooding from record rains in the US states of Texas and Oklahoma have destroyed hundreds of homes and left at least three people dead and several missing.
"We do have whole streets that have maybe one or two houses left on them, and the rest are just slabs," Kharley Smith, emergency management coordinator in Hays County, Texas, said on Sunday.
She told reporters between 350 and 400 homes in the Texas County have been swept away, and at least 1,000 were damaged.
Residents of hard-hit areas were asked to evacuate their homes in the early morning as the flood waters rose menacingly around them, following record-setting rains that turned streets into rivers.
Cars and trucks were inundated and people used inflatable lounge chairs to float down the street.
"Right now is not the time to return to your homes," Ken Bell, the Texas fire marshal, said, after hundreds of residents flee their homes.
"We have infrastructure damage throughout the entire county (of Hays)" he said.
"There are power lines down, debris in the roadways, bridges undermined -- this is not the time to start moving."
The US National Weather Service issued a warning, saying that strong to severe thunderstorms were expected across a large stretch of the central and southern plains.
"Isolated tornadoes, hail and damaging winds are all possible," it added.
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