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Rain eases in Texas; rafter still missing
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published July 8, 2007
DALLAS - The sky was mercifully clear over much of Texas on Saturday after three weeks of drenching rain as search teams combed the swollen Trinity River for a missing rafter. The death toll from storms that have battered Texas since last month climbed to 15 with the recovery of two other flood victims elsewhere in the state. The 26-year-old missing man was on a rubber raft that capsized Friday on the Trinity. Elsewhere across the region, rivers in Oklahoma and Kansas have been receding, revealing millions of dollars in damage to thousands of homes and businesses, besides the 1, 000 or so damaged in Texas. Authorities found the body of a man believed to be the flood's first fatality in Kansas. At the Oklahoma-Texas line, Lake Texoma reached the top of a 640-foot-high concrete spillway Saturday, with waves lapping over the top, the Army Corps of Engineers said. The corps has been pumping an estimated 27, 000 cubic feet of water per second into the Red River to help control the lake. The lake, with a normal level of 619 feet, is expected to crest about 6 inches higher than the spillway Monday. There was only a 20 to 30 percent chance of storms forecasted in Oklahoma on Saturday and today. In Texas, forecasters said severe storms appeared to be tapering.
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