COUNTY LIFE
Amon Carter, Lake Nocona both fill after last week’s rains
Several homes along Williamson Road off FM 1125 at Lake Amon Carter were flooded in the weekend rain. Luckily no families were stranded in the homes due to high water. (Photo Game Warden Chase McAnich)
Both Lake Amon G. Carter and Lake Nocona are filled to overflowing following a week of heavy rainfall.
Carter topped the emergency spillway Friday morning filling up after two days of rain.
As of Tuesday, the level was 926.69msl, 6.29 feet above the capacity at 920. Just one month ago the lake was at 913.21 with the city in stage one of its drought contingency plan.
Just one month ago on April 11 the lake was at 56.1 percent capacity, down 6.79 feet.
For Lake Nocona, the gushing water is long overdue after more than a year and half at stage five restrictions. Capacity for the lake is 827.
As of Tuesday the lake level was 828.69, 1.69 feet over the pool elevation. Just one month ago on April 11 the lake level was 13.90 feet below capacity, with the lake only 32.4 percent full. Read the full story in the mid-week News. Pictured Top: This cove in Lake Nocona has not seen significant water in a very long time and docks were floating by Saturday. (Photo by Willetta Crowe)
Jerry Browder recently donated his grandfather’s antique tractor to Tales ‘N’ Trails Museum in Nocona in an effort to perpetuate it past his generation. It has been in his family for 90 years.
By Jerry Browder,
Denton
In 1934, during the Dustbowl and Great Depression in Southwestern Oklahoma, my grandfather, Benjamin Browder of Gould, OK in Harmon County, OK, acquired this new 1934 first year Model A John Deere S/N 410666 from Lowry Malloy Implement Company in Hollis, OK.
Between 1930 and 1935, 750,000 farmers in the U.S. declared bankruptcy. The “Yearbook of Agriculture” for 1934 reads, “Approximately 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land have essentially been destroyed for crop production…. 100 million acres now in crops have lost all or most of the topsoil; 125 million acres of land now in crops are rapidly losing topsoil….”
Read the full history of this tractor and how it came to the museum in your weekend Bowie News. (Courtesy photo)
Visit noradsanta.org to track Santa as he heads out on his worldwide trek tomorrow night. The site has games and other fun activities for the entire family before the kids head off to bed and sleep before the Big Guy arrives in Texas.
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