Amarillo Smack Down
A "pretty good storm" spread havoc across Amarillo yesterday. Downburst winds of up to 70mph and 3-4 inches of rain in an hour resulted in serious flooding and a few trees down. Residential streets turned into whitewater rapids. Major intersections into swimming pools. It's a problem living in a "flat" city.
I started off watching it form and intensify over the Lake Tanglewood area SE of Amarillo proper. The core dump over this area created an impressive rain/dust foot which I caught in the first image below. Yep, I was out in the middle of it. :-) In addition to the wind damage and major flooding, a couple of roads were caved in or buckled. Yowsa!!
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/062809/new_13832189.shtml
http://myhighplains.com/content/video/?watch=1&cid=63761
http://myhighplains.com/content/video/?watch=1&cid=63731
My photos (video to come later):
I started off watching it form and intensify over the Lake Tanglewood area SE of Amarillo proper. The core dump over this area created an impressive rain/dust foot which I caught in the first image below. Yep, I was out in the middle of it. :-) In addition to the wind damage and major flooding, a couple of roads were caved in or buckled. Yowsa!!
http://www.amarillo.com/stories/062809/new_13832189.shtml
http://myhighplains.com/content/video/?watch=1&cid=63761
http://myhighplains.com/content/video/?watch=1&cid=63731
My photos (video to come later):
posted by Steve Miller TX at 6/28/2009 10:45:00 AM
3 Comments:
Did I ever show you that video I got when I lived there where they were trying to get that woman and baby out of the car on some streets like that? That was back in 2004 when another big core dump happened and flooded the crap our of Amarillo
I am dumbstruck at the fact that people are actually trying to drive through that water!
man im glad i stayed inside.
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