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2 — Gainesville, Texas DAILY REGISTER Wednesday, April 20, 2016
Obituaries
Houston recovering from yet
The year before, flash
six people dead,
The National Weather
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possible Tuesday, a day after ing counties have almost
Chemosky;
a
normal, said Philip Bedient, an engi-
VW owners seek
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trail if there’s no fix
Tamara Sieger, spokes-
in emissions case
The owners filed dozens
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Cox said he does keep in
touch with deployed team
members and after a recent
conversation with Twiner, he
believes “they pretty much
worked through the night”
on Monday.
He said the dedication of
the individuals on the SWRT
has “just been phenomenal.”
It’s unknown when the
team of six is expected to
return, according to fire offi-
cials.
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Denton State School for 8
years.
Those storms still pale in
comparison to the devasta-
He said Tuesday that tion wreaked by Hurricane
area.
“Us, Denton and Fort
Worth were on standby,” he
said, noting Gainesville
would have been the “north-
ern resource covering areas
along U.S. Highway 82.”
At 10 a.m. Monday, the
SWRT was deployed to
College Station and assigned
to Houston.
“They spent very little
time in College Station,”
Cox said during an interview
Tuesday.
TF1 , Cox said.
Sponsored by the Texas
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Houston Mayor Sylvester has more than 600 members
Turner took a tour of flooded from 60 organizations
Funeral services
Frankie Marie Rolston, 64,
of Gainesville, are set for years. Starting in 2001,
10:00 a.m. Friday, April 22, Frankie served 4 years as as-
2016 at die Geo. J. Carroll & sistant deputy registrar and
Son Chapel with Rev. Hollis voter registration clerk at the
Parsons officiating. Collin County Elections in
Burial will follow in the McKinney. In September
Fairview Cemetery. 2014 she retired as deputy
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He was bom in Denton, Brantley Shelton; and a host
TX to Barbara (Trail) Davis of other relatives and friends,
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Some of the resulting a lot is not the attitude we tor, he said the data is unclear
flooded and most developments include ade- need to take," Brody said, but that the El Nino weather
"We are not thinking about phenomenon, caused by
II
Jason James
and were
p.m. Saturday, according to
Cox.
He said the crew “stayed
here locally” as a regional families had to escape their
homes floating on air mat-
tresses, while others were
too afraid to even trudge
amounts of rainfall and throughthe water and waited
flooding were possible in the on assistance from the city.
As of Tuesday afternoon,
six flood-related deaths had
been confirmed in the
Houston area, according to
the Associated Press.
The SWRT was put
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house in Palestine in Ander-
son County after serving 7
Ms. Rolston passed away years. Frankie enjoyed cro-
April 16,2016 in Dallas. dieting, reading mystery
She was bom August 28, books, visiting the local li-
1951 in Gainesville to Frank brary, travel and studying her
and Vera Marie Blackerby bible.
Rolston. Survivors include her pre-
On February 29, 1961, cions daughter, Rebecca
Frankie accepted Jesus as her Marie Griffith; one brother,
personal Savior and was bap- Perry Rolston; one sister,
tized at Central Baptist Bobbie Jean Rolston; and her
Church in Gainesville. After childhood friend of 40 plus
graduating from Gainesville years, Sandra Griffith Carrig-
High School in 1969, an.
Frankie attended business She is preceded in death
school in Dallas. She began by her parents; her brother,
her secretarial career at Blue- Thomas Rolston; and her sis-
Cross/Blue Shield Insurance, ter, Vera Farley.
She went on to work at Lone You may sign the online
Star Gas Company for 14 registry at
years, and then moved to
Denton where she was em-
another deadly flood
HOUSTON (AP) — As hours earlier when electricity ations 35 or 40 years ago.
more than a foot of rain del- outages topped 100,000.
uged the nation's fourth- Houston's
largest city,
DETROIT (AP) —
Lawyers representing thou-
sands of people who own of lawsuits against VW after
diesel Volkswagens that it acknowledged in
cheat on emissions tests are September that it intentional-
asking a judge to order ly defeated emissions tests
repairs and compensation if and put dirty vehicles on the
the company and govern- road. The cheating allowed
ment regulators don't agree cars to pass laboratory emis-
to a fix by Thursday. sions tests while spewing
The request was made in harmful nitrogen oxide at up
a proposed agenda for hear- to 40 times the level allowed
ing Thursday before Senior when operating on real
U.S. District Court Judge roads.
Charles Breyer in San "I think a lot depends on
Francisco. what progress has been
It says the owners want made or whether the judge is
an expedited hearing or a tri- satisfied, or whether he
al before the judge to get an moves on to the proposals
order for "equitable relief' that the plaintiffs are offer-
that would begin in July. Or ing," Tobias said, adding that
they want a full trial that it might be difficult to be
would include punitive dam- ready for a trial in July,
ages against VW in the same The first item on
time frame. Thursday's agenda is a report
Volkswagen says in the on the status of fixing the
document that it does not cars and "related discus-
believe a hearing or trial is sions." It also includes a
appropriate, apparently request to add the Federal
because progress is being Trade Commission to the
made toward a fix and com- case. The FTC has sued VW
pensation. A solution could alleging deceptive advertis-
be revealed at Thursday's ing. The owners' lawyers
hearing. also are seeking documents
Lawyers for the owners that Volkswagen provided to
made the trial request in an the law firm Jones Day,
effort to move the case which the company has
along, said Carl Tobias, a hired to investigate how the
law professor at the cheating happened.
University of Richmond. Volkswagen and the U.S.
The cases have lingered Environmental Protection
since last fall with the pollut- Agency, which has accused
ing cars still on the road, the company of cheating,
leaving owners to wonder if would not comment on
VW will buy them back or whether an agreement would
come up with a repair that be announced at Thursday's
will hurt their performance hearing.
and fuel mileage.
" 2,500 vehicles, and more
Samuel Brody, director of than 1,000 homes were dam-
Metropolitan the Environmental Planning aged in the rain.
inundating Transit Authority resumed & Sustainability Research
homes, shutting down major service and most highways Unit at Texas A&M flooding in Houston and sub-
highways and leaving at within the city were open. University, has called urban counties left cars
least six people dead, Outside the city and into Houston "the No. 1 city in trapped on major highways.
Houston's mayor said there the suburbs of northwest America to be injured and
was no immediate solution. Harris County, runoff from die in a flood."
Heavy flooding has Monday's rains forced creeks
become nearly an annual rite over their banks and forced mounting damages from Ike in 2008 and Tropical
of passage in the practically more people to evacuate flash floods point to a woeful Storm Allison in 2001.
sea-level city, where experts their homes overnight. lack of planning in a city that Allison left behind $5 billion
have long warned of the In addition to its location, added 90,000 people last in damages and flooded parts
potential for catastrophe and Houston's "gumbo" soft soil, year alone and is a major cog of downtown and the Texas
have criticized city leaders fast-growing population and in the national economy. He Medical Center, which sits
for not doing more to address building boom that has suggested the city should near the Brays Bayou, a key
the problem. turned empty pastures into offer buyouts to homeown- watershed.
"A lot of rain coming in a housing developments all ers in areas that chronically
very short period of time, over the city's suburbs and flood and turn the land into Service's chief meteorologist
exurbs make it vulnerable to open space. The city should for Houston, Jeff Evans, said
Mayor Sylvester Turner said high waters. also upgrade its building Monday's soaking and the
Monday. Harris County has seen a code to mandate elevating 2015 Memorial Day deluge
Flash flooding and a 50 30 percent jump in popula- structures in flood-prone were the second- and third-
percent chance of more were tion since 2000. Its surround- areas, he said. biggest rain events on record
"To throw up your hands after Allison, which dumped
nearly 18 inches fell in 24 grown more than 10 percent and say we're going to be more than 30 inches of rain
hours. The National Weather since 2000, according to the vulnerable and have hun- on parts of the sprawling city
Service had the area under a Greater Houston dreds of millions of dollars over two days.
flash flood watch through Partnership, a business of impact every year in Asked if man-made cli-
Wednesday morning. group. Houston just because it rains mate change could be a fac-
Scores of subdivisions
were
schools remained closed quate greenspace for water
although the city itself was runoff, but not all of them do, the big picture." heightened surface tempera-
returning to normal, said Philip Bedient, an engi- Rainstorms last year over tures in the eastern Pacific,
Municipal offices reopened neering professor at Rice Memorial Day weekend could "be a player in why
Tuesday and by midmom- University. caused major flooding that we're had so many big rain
ing, less than 10,000 "Could we have engi- required authorities to rescue events this year.
CenterPoint Energy cus- neered our way out of this?" 20 people, most of them
tomers were without power, Bedient said. "Only if we drivers, from high water,
an improvement from 24 started talking about alter- Drivers abandoned at least rate of 3-4 inches an hour.
Deployed —
quartered in College Station,
asked last Friday morning if woman for Gainesville Fire-
the fire station could get a Rescue, said the team pro-
SWRT together. He noted it vided assistance to “the hard group was certified with TX-
was a “pre-alert” for the hit Greenspoint area” where
upcoming heavy rain events the City of Houston reported
predicted in the area. up to 2,500 were in need of
A team of six — Shannon evacuation.
Jeffcoat, Cameron
Fisher,David Heller, Zane Turner took a tour of flooded from
Ferguson,Wayne Twiner and Greenspoint-area apartments throughout Texas, according
— got together on Monday, according to to their website.
'activated” at 5 KHOU-11, Houston’s CBS Sieger said the GF-R’s
SWRT consists of about a
dozen members or “two boat
teams” and their last deploy-
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