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Record-breaking high winds and rain pounded parts of West Texas Tuesday night, toppling communications towers, taking off roofs and destroying houses and mobile homes.
Seminole was hit the hardest. According to the Weather Bureau, winds topped 120 mph. Three communications towers toppled, sending one smashing into a nearby church, destroying a church bus and most of the church building. Just outside Seminole a Menonite family escaped serious injury when the winds destroyed their mobile home. They managed to make it out of the trailer and into their pickup, which overturned during the storm.
On my property south of the Midland Internat'l Airport, the wind took the roof off a mobile home that was used for storage. The trailer I live in was untouched except being severely rocked by the high winds which reached 93 mph.
No deaths were reported, but there were four reported injuries in the part of the storm that hit Seminole.
Seminole was hit the hardest. According to the Weather Bureau, winds topped 120 mph. Three communications towers toppled, sending one smashing into a nearby church, destroying a church bus and most of the church building. Just outside Seminole a Menonite family escaped serious injury when the winds destroyed their mobile home. They managed to make it out of the trailer and into their pickup, which overturned during the storm.
On my property south of the Midland Internat'l Airport, the wind took the roof off a mobile home that was used for storage. The trailer I live in was untouched except being severely rocked by the high winds which reached 93 mph.
No deaths were reported, but there were four reported injuries in the part of the storm that hit Seminole.