Ellis remembered, "I was in a 23-foot vessel with a 225 horsepower engine on it, and I couldn’t keep up with the flow, I eventually had to turn around.”
As you may have noticed, large areas of Central Texas were flooded after heavy rains Thursday. As the skies began to clear, we went out to explore and captured these photos and videos at The Oscar Store east of Temple and The Gin at Nolan Creek in Belton.
At a press conference Friday morning, Fort Hood's Maj. Gen John Uberti confirmed that five soldiers are dead and four remain missing after a tactical vehicle overturned at a low-water crossing during a training exercise Thursday morning.
Three Fort Hood soldiers were dead and six remained missing Thursday evening as emergency crews continued to conduct rescue operations for an overturned Light Medium Tactical Vehicle at the Owl Creek Tactical low-water crossing and East Range Road.
Belton Lake is currently over 13 feet above full pool level as of 10 a.m. this morning, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. That's a lot of water