NEWS
Area road closures from TxDOT; six inches of rain falls
Widespread Flooding in the Wichita Falls district, Texas Department of Transportation road closure update
Archer, Clay, Cooke, Montague, Wichita and Young Counties at 10:30 a.m. Thursday
New closures and flooded conditions are being reported. This list of roadways is constantly changing. Motorists are reminded to Turn Around…Don’t Drown. Also barricades and TxDOT manned closures are there to keep you safe. Going around the road block is illegal and punishable by a $2000 fine and up to 2 years in jail.
DriveTexas.Org is an excellent source to check these rapidly changing conditions.
ARCHER:
U.S. 281 has water on the roadway from S.H. 16 to Antelope. Open and passable at slow speeds
FM 1883 is clouded from FM 172 to SH 148.
CLAY
U.S. 287 Southbound is reduced to one lane because of water on the roadway. Slower speeds will get you through it.
FM 175 is CLOSED from SH 148 West to Shannon.
FM 172 from Scotland to Bluegrove has standing water. Passable with caution.
FM 1997 is CLOSED from Just North of Henrietta to FM 2332.
SH 148 is flooded just South of US 287. Passable with care.
Spur 510 North of US 287 is flooding. At this time it is passable with caution.
FM 1883 is CLOSED from FM 172 to SH 148.
COOKE
FM 1630 at Clear Creek is flooded. Precede with caution.
MONTAGUE
US 81 from FM 1806 North has water on the roadway. It is passable if you take it easy.
FM 1956 West of Nocona has standing water. Passable at slow speeds
FM1806 is CLOSED from Stoneburg to Bus Stop Road.
WICHITA
Old Iowa Park Road’s Northbound lanes are CLOSED due to flooding.
Debbie Hoover shared this photo of a vehicle under water at the Mill Street Railroad overpass from Wednesday night. Despite flashing police lights altering to the high water, the driver drove through and had to be rescued.
Members of the Bowie City Council will face a brief agenda when they meet at 6 p.m. on Oct. 13 in the council chambers.
Following routine reports and consent agenda items, the council will consider a resolution authorizing submission of the city’s 2027/2028 Texas Community Development Block Grant application to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Then council members will consider approving Bob Blackburn for appointment as a reserve police officer with the Bowie Police Department.
Following an executive session, the council will discuss and potentially take action regarding the annual employment evaluations and duties of both the City Secretary and the Municipal Court Judge.
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.
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