AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A 2-year-old girl pulled out of a flooded creek has become the 10th person to die because of torrential downpours in storm-battered Texas.
Alyssa Faye Murphy died Friday, a day after she was rescued from the creek, a spokeswoman for Scott & White hospital said Sunday.
Up to 13 inches of rain fell in parts of Texas on Thursday and Friday, breaking daily records in Austin and San Antonio, swelling creeks and waterways.
Austin crews on Sunday continued cleaning up sewage spills resulting from flood damage to city wastewater pumping stations.
An estimated 14 million gallons of untreated or partially treated sewage spilled from the flood-damaged Walnut Creek treatment plant into Walnut Creek, which empties into the Colorado River. The South Austin Regional Wastewater Plant spilled an additional 13.8 million gallons into the Colorado.