Kyle Lester paddles past a submerged SUV as he looks for residents to help in the Timber Lakes Timber Ridge subdivision near Houston in April 2016. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via AP)
No state was hit harder by deadly flooding in the first half of 2016 than Texas.
At least 29 people have been killed due to floodwaters in the state this year. This follows on the heels of a deadly 2015 where 48 people lost their lives in the state due to flooding.
The north and west sides of the Houston metro area were swamped with 10-20 inches of rain late April 17 into April 18, resulting in disastrous flooding that left eight people dead. Later that month, six people were killed by a separate flood event in Palestine.
Six more deaths occurred in the last few days of May 2016 from flooding in central and southeast Texas, according to the Associated Press. This was followed by the deaths of nine Fort Hood soldiers that were killed when their truck was washed away on June 2, 2016.
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