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WIMBERLEY, Texas — It was midafternoon on Saturday, May 30, when search and rescue teams announced they had, for the second time that day, found the body of an adult female near storm-ravaged Wimberley in the beautiful and sprawling Hill Country of central-southern Texas.

The previous day, an adult male body was also recovered. None of the three people have been identified, pending autopsies.

This brought the number of recovered bodies in Hays County, the district that houses Wimberley, San Marcos (another hard-hit city), and part of the Texas capital, Austin, to eight. There are still six people last seen in Wimberley listed as missing.

“It’s just so difficult for us, because this is a small community,” Susan Myers, a 61-year-old resident of Wimberley, told The Daily Beast while coordinating relief efforts at the Cypress Creek Church. “We’re all neighbors.”

The grisly discoveries came a week after the Blanco River that borders Wimberley rapidly rose to more than 40 feet, taking the community by surprise and levying destruction as a large weather system developed across Central and Southern Texas.

According to a statement issued by Hays County, preliminary estimates place the county-wide cost at $32.7 million. More than 1,200 homes are damaged, and 209 have been destroyed. Hays County expects these numbers to increase.

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