This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, May 30, 2016, at 12:45 AM EDT shows rain showers moving through the Mid Atlantic and Northeast due to an area of low pressure. More showers can be expected on Monday due to the influx of moisture from Tropical Depression Bonnie which is slowly moving NE along the South Carolina Coast. Another area of showers can be seen across southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky due to a cold front. More showers and storms are being observed across the Plains. A few of these storms might be severe. Partly cloudy conditions can be see across parts of the Southeast and Midwest due to areas of high pressure. (Weather Underground via AP)
This NOAA satellite image taken Monday, May 30, 2016, at 12:45 AM EDT shows rain showers moving through the Mid Atlantic and Northeast due to an area of low pressure. More showers can be expected on Monday due to the influx of moisture from Tropical Depression Bonnie which is slowly moving NE along the South Carolina Coast. Another area of showers can be seen across southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky due to a cold front. More showers and storms are being observed across the Plains. A few of these storms might be severe. Partly cloudy conditions can be see across parts of the Southeast and Midwest due to areas of high pressure. (Weather Underground via AP)

Fort Worth, Texas — Residents of some rural southeast Texas counties braced for more flooding on Monday along a river that is expected to crest at a record level just two years after it had run dry in places because of drought.

National Weather Service meteorologists predicted that the Brazos river would crest at 53.5 feet by midday Tuesday in Fort Bend County, 3 feet above the previous record and topping a 1994 flood that caused extensive damage.

During four days of torrential rain, six people have died in floods along the Brazos, which runs from New Mexico to the Gulf of Mexico. A Brazos River Authority map shows all 11 of the reservoirs fed by the Brazos at 95 to 100 percent capacity.

A man whose body was recovered late Sunday from a retention pond in the Austin area near the Circuit of the Americas auto racing track appeared to be one of two people reported missing earlier, said Travis County sheriff’s spokeswoman Lisa Block.

There have been reports of others missing in Travis County, and crews will resume searching Tuesday, but Block said there’s no confirmation yet of additional missing people.

Four of the six dead were recovered in Washington County, located between Austin and Houston, said County Judge John Brieden. Lake Somerville, one of the Brazos reservoirs, was “gushing uncontrollably” over the spillway, threatening people downriver. Two of the bodies were found Saturday in different parts of the county, Brieden said.

About 40 people were rescued from late Sunday to Monday from homes in a low-lying neighborhood flooded with up to three feet of water in Simonton, a town in Fort Bend County with about 800 residents. Aerial photos taken Sunday showed large swaths of the county under water.

The county had set up a pumping system to divert the water from the Simonton neighborhood, which sits on a flood plain. But the water levels overpowered the system, according to Beth Wolf, a county spokeswoman.

Wolf said any additional rain in southeast Texas would be a problem.

“The ditches are full, the river’s high, there’s nowhere else for that water to go,” she said.