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Many other streets and highways in Fort Worth-Dallas and the
surrounding area are temporarily affected by flash flooding from time
to time - Larticulary tgose in low-lying parts of the area.
During the night Dallas police had 55 reports of flooding in
various prts of the city. For a time at least a dozen main streets
in the downtown area were barricaded with deep water.
The Dallas police said that for a time the North Central Expressway
was blocked by high water. The fashionable Highland lark suburb ,as par-
ticulary hard hit by the heavy rains with cActuresque turle creek boiling
out of its banks like an angry moujtain river.
North Dallas housewives re-orted heavy damage to their homes from
the reins. Rescue squads dived for persons in the Turtle creek area who
were rescued virtually Unharmed from their automobiles. A police spokesman
said more than 400 stalled cars were stranded occupants were resorted.
In West Dallas boats were used to evacuate residents from flooded
houses. Boats also were used in isolated sections near Bachman and
White mock Lakes.
During the heavy rains last night Lighting struck the Hidglea
Bank Building narrowly missing eight students of a computer school
housed in the building. The students were outside on a coffee break,
watching the storm, when the bolt struck knocking bricks from a corner
of the structure.
A helicopter was forced down in the west part of Fort Worth by the
heavy rains. Several tornadoes were retorted in parts of Tarrent County
however apparently none touched the ground.
The village creek trailer pirk in the Kennedale area was evacuated
by high water. Fort Worth police report that virtually all dry weather
crossings - and many many low spots were tilled with water.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Floods], script, May 7, 1969, 6:30 a.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1081424/m1/3/?q=%22~1%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.