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To: Sig who wrote (170111)	7/7/2002 8:43:11 PM
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Sig: It's dry where you are, right? :)Leigh Texas Governor Seeks Federal Aid for 17 More Flood-Ravaged Counties Friday: A school bus rests in floodwaters in New Braunfels, Texas. Sunday, July 07, 2002 NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — From the air Sunday, Gov. Rick Perry saw firsthand the devastation days of torrential rain have brought to Central and South Texas: houses surrounded by a sea of roiling, muddy water, uprooted trees and overturned vehicles. "The devastation is extensive," he said at a news conference after the tour. "I mean, what you see with both film and still photography, it doesn't really show all of the damage that's occurred. Obviously when the water goes down we're going to see the impact on residential property is going to be substantial." Perry asked Sunday that 17 counties be declared disaster areas, including some counties hit by a surprise flood Saturday morning in West Texas, and some counties that he originally requested aid for last week. Thirteen counties have been declared federal disaster areas by President Bush. Additional surveys and damage assessments will be undertaken in nine counties included in the original request last week. "They still may have access to some form of federal assistance. The process is still ongoing in those counties," said Gene Acuna, a spokesman for the governor. Perry made the latest request after flying over the swollen Guadalupe River in a Blackhawk helicopter with other state and federal officials, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Perry said the death toll had risen to 12 people, up from the eight that were reported killed in the flooding as of Saturday. Details on the additional four fatalities were not immediately known. Saturday: Melissa Callaway hands muddy toys to her daughter Kahlan, 5, at their flood-damaged home in Bandera, Texas. In south-central Texas, where more than 30 inches of rain fell in places during the week, water levels finally were dropping, but tens of millions of dollars in property damage had already occurred "Ninety-nine percent of the time it's a beautiful part of the state. We get these floods in here and it gets pretty rough looking. I suspect that the vast majority of them will clean up, rebuild," Perry said. "It isn't going to be painless. It's going to be a tough process to go through." The floodwaters were now flowing toward the Gulf of Mexico, pouring into more houses and forcing hundreds more evacuations south and southeast of the city. Meanwhile, about 200 miles north in Abilene, heavy flooding continued after a surprise storm dumped a foot of rain on Saturday. Several creeks were transformed into torrents that cut through the West Texas city, leaving many residents scrambling to get out of their homes. West Texas authorities were warning residents not to wade or drive through the snake-infested waters. "We have been extremely fortunate and extremely pleased that we had no reported injuries. The way people act, it's surprising," Abilene Police Sgt. Kim Vickers said. "They just choose to ignore the warnings and barricades." The National Weather Service office in San Angelo said there was a strong chance that several more inches of rain could fall on Abilene and the surrounding area on Sunday. William Ayres, a spokesman for the Texas Division of Emergency Management in Austin, said Sunday that some people who had been evacuated from South and Central Texas were returning to their homes, but that the overflowing rivers remained perilous. "The waters are still swift," he said. "It's still a very dangerous situation." Steve Dean returned to his house on the banks of the Guadalupe River in New Braunfels. To his surprise it was still there with only a little water on the floor. The house stands on reinforced stilts rising up from the foundation of a house destroyed in the record flood of 1998. "It's not as bad as what we thought," said Dean, whose neighbors saw their homes torn up and carried away on Friday and Saturday. "I thought when the water started getting up higher, it take (the house) off those concrete columns." The Guadalupe and other rivers originating in the Hill Country were flooding cities and croplands downstream along a lowlying coastal plain leading to the Gulf of Mexico. The San Antonio River flows south from the city of San Antonio through a broad expanse of crop and ranch lands before emptying into the Guadalupe near the gulf. Large numbers of cattle were believed to be isolated or drowned along the river, which will crest 30 feet above flood stage in Goliad. Mary Jane Martin, a spokeswoman for the Goliad County Sheriff's office, said fewer than two dozen houses were expected to be flooded in the county. foxnews.com