NEWS
TxDOT road closure update
TxDOT Road update 10 p.m. Wednesday
MONTAGUE COUNTY TAKES BRUNT OF STORM. TRAVEL IS TREACHEROUS AND DISCOURAGED.
All travel in Montague County is highly discouraged. All roadways are reporting some degree flooding. These roads will CLOSE without notice. Motorists should avoid all travel tonight. With darkness your life could be in serious danger. We’ve had three water rescues already this evening on the State’s roadways. Removing State barricades and running road blocks is a punishable offense with fines and jail time.
FM 81 (Mill St.) at FM 1125 at the railroad underpass is CLOSED due to flooding.
FM 2583 at the boat dock at Amon Carter Lake is CLOSED.
US 81 at FM 1806 has high water and could close at any time.
FM1956 is CLOSED from Bluemound Rd to FM3301.
STATE HWY 101 is CLOSED at the Montague/Wise County Line.
STATE HWY 175 from Montague to Nocona is CLOSED.
STATE HWY 59 from Montague to St. Jo is CLOSED.
FM 1806 behind Old Bowie Lake is CLOSED.
FM 1806 is CLOSED from Stoneburg to Montague.
FM 103 is CLOSED.
OTHER ROAD CLOSURES IN THE WICHITA FALLS DISTRICT INCLUDE
Clay Co:
FM 1954- From FM 2393 to FM 2606 in the Lake Arrowhead Area is CLOSED due to high water.
Cooke Co:
I-35 Frontage Rd – In Valley View and at the Red River Bridge are CLOSED. Exit/On ramps may be affected as well. However the Interstate is OPEN.
After nearly three months of no rain, Mother Nature brought the showers this past week.
Downtown Bowie rain reports varied from 7 to 8 inches, while the Saint Jo area reported a 10-inch total. The city water plant in Bowie reported 5.55 inches on Sept. 30 with 1.6 Oct. 1-3.
Nocona saw a total of 6.31 inches of rain across Sept. 26 to Oct. 3.
On Oct. 6, Lake Amon G. Carter saw a level of 917.39 mean sea level rising to 81.31% full. Just one week earlier the lake was 73.6% full, while one year ago it was 94.01%. The lake is full at 920msl.
Lake Nocona was 73.7% full at 823.02 on Oct 6. One week earlier it was 70.41% full and one year ago it was 92.41%. The lake is full at 827.5 msl.
By BARBARA GREEN
editor@bowienewsonline.com
One Montague County City has joined the battle against any data centers being built in this county and there is a petition drive underway to urge the commissioner’s court to keep data centers out of Montague County.
At a Sept. 28 called meeting of the Saint Jo City Council, officials unanimously approved a resolution stating its opposition to the “siting, permitting, construction or operation of data centers and similar hyperscale computing facilities within the city limits or the city’s extraterritorial jurisdiction.”
City Secretary Debbie Dennis said several citizens approached Councilor Jack Dunn about their data center concerns and he helped prepare a resolution. The council gave unanimous support.
Read the full story in your Thursday Bowie News.
Montague County Judge Kevin Benton has signed an order lifting the outdoor burn ban effective Oct. 7.
Persons are still urged to be cautious when they are out working in the countryside to avoid any spark that could cause a wildfire.
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