Water tops levee, pours into Texas border town
The Associated PressWater has topped a stressed levee that separates the West Texas border town of Presidio from the swelling Rio Grande.
It wasn't immediately clear Wednesday morning whether any part of the levee had failed, but the river was flooding a golf course and some ranch land in this dusty-turned-muddy town of about 5,000 people. Presidio sits across the Rio Grande from Ojinaga, Mexico, about 250 miles down river from El Paso.
Low-lying parts of Presidio are under mandatory evacuation, but schools remain open even as the elementary school serves as a command center and evacuee shelter.
Some residents took pictures of the water rushing over the levee and turning the golf course into a chocolate-brown reservoir marked by partially submerged trees, bushes and power lines.