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TEXAS FLOOD
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In the initial stages of the flooding...all highways into Brownwood with the exception of 283 south to Brady..,are
closed by the highwater.
Pecan Bayou, Adams Brpnch and
Brownwood slough....all leave their banks.,.,all converge near the Traffic circle...just north of the Brownwood city limits. LONG OF COURTHOUSE AND DOWNTOWN The highwater laps to within one block of the courthouse. BRIDGE OVER PECAN BAYOU The J i flood at Brownwood is a major par t of I general "bad weather" story in Texas this week,
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More than five inches of rein in 26 hours pours down on Brownwood, Texas and the surrounding watershed..,.sending high waters Swirling into Lmuoh of the town....foroing families to evacuate their homes and causing damage estimated at more than 200 thousand dollars. Itis another in a series of pushes floods plaguing Texas this year. The rains Lake Brownwood four ..over the spillway level..and the water rolls on toward town...at the rate of one million gallons a minute.
Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about ongoing flooding in Brownwood, forcing families to evacuate homes and closing roads and highways across the region.
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