4 children, grandmother die in Texas flooding
Six to 10 homes in a Palestine cul-de-sac were severely damaged after heavy rainfall over the course of just a few minutes after midnight, said Capt. James Muniz of the Palestine Police Department.
Around 3:45 a.m., the Palestine Police Department received reports that Asberry and her grandchildren were missing and sent officers to search the houses in waist-deep water.
“I thought it was a mailbox, but then I realized what it really was, and I started screaming,” she said of seeing the body.
With the enormous amount of rain we had, we had people tell us that within minutes, the water was waist deep.
City officials used a dump truck to rescue a man from the roof of a home, Muniz said.