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04-08-2025
- Climate
- Yahoo
Sunray football stadium takes significant damage during early morning severe storm
Sunray High School is dealing with significant damage to multiple facilities after major storms moved through the area early Sunday morning. A few weeks before the start of regular season football games, Bobcat Stadium sustained substantial damage, according to photos and videos posted on Facebook by Meteorologist Brenda Hughes. The severe weather produced winds that are estimated to have exceeded 80 miles per hour, knocking down trees, power lines and Sunray's press box, in addition to causing other damage around the Texas Panhandle community. The Bobcats' first home football game of the 2025 season is set for Sept. 19 against Childress, but the teams may have to find an alternative location to meet if Sunray's stadium is still being repaired. According to news reports, Dumas, Borger and Fritch also saw some damage as a result of the storms, but north Moore County received the brunt. After the storm rolled in around 2:30 a.m., city officials in Sunray declared a curfew until 7 a.m. on Sunday, and declared the city a disaster area. There are currently no reports of injuries or deaths resulting from the recent outbreak of severe weather. The city also lost power on Sunday, but with the help of volunteers from Dumas, Stratford, Dalhart — and other nearby communities — Sunray had its power restored by Monday morning. Sunray FFA also hosted a clean-up day, meeting organizers and volunteers at the high school on Monday to begin repair and restoration efforts. To help those impacted by the storms, Feed the Kids will be offering free lunches Monday through Thursday from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at 10th Elm Avenue in Dumas, according to a Facebook post from the organization. The Bobcats went 12-1 in 2024, losing in regional round of the playoffs to Post. Wes Boatmun's team graduated superstar quarterback Armando Lujan and a number of other key contributors, but still managed to reach the 7-on-7 state tournament this summer, and should be primed for a solid season in 2025. EDITOR'S NOTE: This is a developing story. This article originally appeared on Amarillo Globe-News: Sunray football stadium takes significant damage in severe storm Solve the daily Crossword
New York Times
14-07-2025
- Climate
- New York Times
Officials in Flooded Texas Defend Response Amid Threats
Kerr County officials said on Monday that they were receiving death threats amid lingering questions about the county's preparation and response to the recent flooding. 'It's sad to see the evil that's out there,' Rich Paces, a Kerr County commissioner, said at the commission's public meeting after disastrous flooding this month left 103 people dead in the county. 'I've been getting death threats. Can you imagine? People cursing us for decisions that we never had a chance to make. They're just playing a blame game.' In a separate meeting Monday morning of the City Council of Kerrville, Brenda Hughes, a council member, lamented 'targeted threats' made to individual staff members and asked for increased security measures. Victims of the flooding included more than two dozen at the Camp Mystic girls camp in the town of Hunt, while another 161 people were still missing across Kerr County. The sprawling rural county in the Texas hill country, with about 50,000 residents, was hit by far the hardest. Local officials have deflected questions for more than a week about why they were not more immediately responsive to warnings issued by the National Weather Service overnight on July 4, as they have grappled with a continuing effort to find bodies and clear debris. Officials at the Weather Service were actively reaching out to emergency management officials in the region after the agency issued a 1:14 a.m. warning of 'life-threatening flash flooding' in the area. But in the first three hours after that, while the Guadalupe River rose 20 feet, local leaders would remain largely unheard from and did not make use of technology that was available to send out warnings. The mayor of Kerrville has said that he was awakened only at 5:30 a.m., despite several more flood warnings that had been automatically sent to cellphones and weather radios. County officials have repeatedly been asked for a timeline of the county's response, but have not provided one, saying their focus is on search and rescue. In a joint statement, the city and county said they 'maintain 24/7 emergency services, which allowed responders to act immediately on July 4th.' They also said they were 'committed to a transparent and full review of processes and protocols.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
