1 child dies after being swept away in Texas floodwaters [Video]

Storms in Texas brought additional rain Sunday to the already saturated Houston area where hundreds of people have been rescued from flooded homes and roads, while to the north in the Fort Worth area, a child died after being swept away when the car he was traveling in got stuck in floodwaters.Over the last week, areas near Lake Livingston, located northeast of Houston, have gotten upwards of 23 inches of rain, National Weather Service meteorologist Jimmy Fowler said on Sunday afternoon. Meanwhile, he said, areas in northeastern Harris County, the nation’s third-largest county that includes Houston, had a range of 6 inches to almost 17 inches of rain in that same period.Scattered showers in the Houston area on Sunday brought light to moderate rainfall, he said.“With the rainfall that fell overnight plus this morning it just kind of prolonged the river flooding that we were experiencing,” Fowler said.He said the …