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Denton, Texas
High-water woes continue
when the car she was riding in was lapse of the roof of the Bandera Butte-
swept from the street by the flooded Cy- tin, the weekly newspaper, KSAT-TV in
press Creek about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, San Antonio reported. Photos from the
Kendall County sheriff’s Cpl. Reid Daly area showed campers and trailers
stacked against each other, but no in-
juries were reported.
Torrential rains caused heavy flash
At least 6 dead, 2
missing after floods
in Texas, Kansas
said.
The car, with three occupants, was
in Comfort, about 45 miles north of San
Antonio. The driver made it to shore, flooding in some parts of the U.S. over
and a female passenger was rescued the last few days, and led to numerous
from a tree. But Daly said 23-year-old evacuations in southeast Texas, includ-
Florida Molima was missing until her ing two prisons. But the threat of severe
body was found around 11 a.m. Sunday weather has lessened over the long Me-
about 8 miles downstream. She be- morial Day holiday for many places,
comes the sixth flood-related death in though Tropical Depression Bonnie
Texas this Memorial Day weekend.
In Bandera, about 45 miles north-
west of San Antonio, an estimated 10
inches of rain overnight led to the res- STAR Flight helicopter found a body
cues of nine people. The rain caused -
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By Michael Graczyk
Associated Press
HOUSTON — Authorities in cen-
tral Texas found two more bodies along
flooded streams Sunday, bringing the
death toll from flooding the state to six.
It’s unclear whether a body found in
Travis County near Austin is one of the
two people still missing in Texas. An 11-
year-old boy is still missing in central
Kansas, too.
The latest flooding victim identified
by authorities was a woman who died
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Near Austin, a crew aboard a county
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Texas Department of Criminal Justice prisoners are evacuated from the
Terrell and Stringfellow Units on Sunday in Rosharon.
Boil-water
alerts on
the rise
in Texas
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Veterans gather for Memorial Day service
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By David Warren
Associated Press
DALLAS — A glass of drinking water
hasn’t been easy to come by lately for the
320,000 people in Corpus Christi.
The Texas Gulf Coast city has issued
three orders in less than a year telling resi-
dents to boil their water to ensure it’s safe
to consume, including a two-week order
this month that sparked outrage, contrib-
uted to the city manager’s resignation and
renewed questions about how to fix the
problem.
Corpus Christi is one of many U.S.
communities coping with water problems
caused by aging infrastructure. With cost-
ly upgrades unrealistic for many cash-
strapped cities, including Corpus Christi,
the water problems seem likely to persist.
‘We’re talking about supplying water
in the year 2016, and we’re having these
problems over and over again,” dentist
Rene Vela told the Corpus Christi Caller-
Times. “It’s starting to affect my family, my
employees and I’m sure the rest of the city.
It’s ridiculous.”
The issues of safe drinking water and
eroding infrastructure gained widespread
attention in recent months due to the cri-
sis in Flint, Michigan, where lead pipes
contaminated the water supply after the
city switched from a metropolitan Detroit
system to improperly treated Flint River
water in 2014 while under state manage-
ment.
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Photos by Jeff Woo/DRC
Major General Mary Saunders, right, speaks at a Memorial Day service at Roselawn Memorial Park on Sunday.
A LOOK BACK
Republican Donald
Trump told a motorcycle
rally on Sunday that
people in the U.S. illegal-
ly often are cared for
better than the nation’s
By Rhiannon Saegert
Staff Writer
rsaegert@dentonrc. com
Veterans and their families gathered
at Roselawn Memorial Park on Sunday
to tend to loved ones’ graves and take
part in a Memorial Day service honoring
the sacrifice of those who died serving in
the military.
Roselawn Memorial Park and the lo-
cal Veterans of Foreign Wars work to-
gether every year to host the event. This
year, the presentation was followed by a
dove release, a 21-gun salute and taps.
Veterans and their families were invited
to VFW Post 2205 for lunch after the
military veterans, with-
out backing up his alle-
gation.
In Texas alone, there were 1,550 boil-
water advisories last year, up from about
1,100 in 2012 and 650 in 2008, according
to the Texas Commission on Environmen-
tal Quality.
Fourteen Texas cities with populations
exceeding 100,000 have issued at least
one boil-water advisory in the last five
years. Other U.S. metro areas have had
similar problems: In recent years the resi-
dents of Toledo, Ohio, a city of 400,000,
were told not to drink the water after tox-
ins penetrated the system, and the Seattle
suburb of Mercer Island avoided tap water
for nearly a week after elevated levels of E.
coli were found.
Greg DiLoreto, past president of the
American Society of Civil Engineers, said
an additional $105 billion must be spent to
modernize water and wastewater treat-
ment facilities in a country that sees
240,000 water main breaks a year. But it’s
a tall order in light of how the upgrade
burden falls largely on local water utilities,
many of which serve only a few hundred
or even a few dozen customers.
“If you want fewer incidents and you
want quality water, you’re going to have to
increase water rates,” DiLoreto said.
“We’re not understanding the true cost of
operating, maintaining and replacing a
full water utility.”
DiLoreto and other water quality
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INTERNATIONAL
In solemn ceremonies
Sunday in the forests of
eastern France, French
President Francois Hol-
lande and German
Chancellor Angela Mer-
kel marked 100 years
since the Battle of Ver-
dun.
service.
Retired Maj. Gen. Mary Saunders,
who served 34 years in the U.S. Air
Force, gave a short speech that touched
on the history of the holiday, which was
created in 1868. She recited part of the
poem “In Flanders Fields,” written by
Canadian Army Lt. Col. John McCrae in
1915.
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Wayne Trevathan holds a flag during Sunday’s service. Roselawn Memorial
Park and the local Veterans of Foreign Wars work together every year to
host the event.
“In Flanders Fields the poppies blow/
Between the crosses row on row/That
mark our place; and in the sky/The
larks, still bravely singing, fly/Scarce
heard amid the guns below,” she read.
Saunders said she chose the poem
deliberately for its message.
“I like it because we so often forget
about people who die in a war, and we
also forget that even the people who give
their lives know that they’re passing the
flag to someone else, and we need to re-
member that,” Saunders said.
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Saunders said she’s participated in
many Memorial Day services in the past,
and to her, they’re an important part of
remembering and grieving.
“It’s like in any circumstances when a
person dies,” she said. “It’s very easy for
people to think that initially everybody
is all over you. ‘Oh, I’m so sorry’ and
What can I do?’ Eventually, that kind of
drifts away. This is a way to keep bring-
ing us back and keep remembering that
we remember.”
According to the Department of De-
fense and the Department of Veterans
Affairs, more than 1.1 million Americans
have been killed in U.S.-involved wars.
Saunders said when it’s time to speak for
a Memorial Day service, she picks one
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