Worth area is on alert for additional rain with thunderstorms predicted for today. Worth, the hail damaged 100 cars beyond repair. Worth, rooftops were ravaged by a steady hailstorm that caused a bowling alley roof to collapse, a metal roof of a pizza parlor to crumple and smashed the skylights at City Hall.Īt an Acura dealership in Ft. Worth, the siding on houses was completely cracked, and bricks were chipped by hail driven by 70-m.p.h. Worth police officer pointed to the blue portable toilets and commented: “The safest place in this place was in those Porta-Potties.”Īt the Botanical Gardens near Mayfest, hundreds of windows were blown out of a greenhouse. Said one patron: “The only thing you could think to do was huddle over people and protect them.”Ī Ft. At Mayfest, an annual arts and street fair, 60 people were injured by the sudden storm and pounding hail that tore away the tarpaulins of local artisans showing their wares. Worth, 45 miles west of Dallas, was devastated by softball-size hail. “I’ve been watching the news and watching other people’s problems. In the Oak Cliff section of Dallas, in the southwest part of the city, Franklin Smith, the owner of Smitty’s sporting goods store, surveyed his roof, which collapsed under the weight of the rain, and sighed. He was just about to reach the car when he got sucked into a storm drain. Cruz Aguilar was trying to rescue three people caught in a freeway underpass. ![]() On several streets leading from downtown, people had to be rescued from the roofs of cars that were stuck in the water. Northbound lanes of the freeway, the oldest and busiest in Dallas, were closed. On a portion of the freeway undergoing a massive renovation, a retaining wall threatened to give way and release a torrent of mud. People driving on Dallas’ Central Expressway, the main north-south artery, were caught in underpasses, where water sat windshield-wiper high. Patients were rushed by elevator from the emergency room to upper floors of the hospital. The force of the water had lifted and dumped cars into heaps across the lot.Īt Baylor University Medical Center, one of Dallas’ main trauma hospitals, the emergency room flooded and remained closed Saturday. When the water drained, parking lots looked like junkyards. Outside the Music Hall, 100 vehicles were damaged by rainwater that turned them into boats. Dallas city buses were called to take them home. “Nobody could get their cars out because of the fast-moving water,” said an audience member, Deborah Schlief. The rains stopped the play in the middle of the first act. Another employee, pointing to the smoldering bread plant, said, “There’s a lot of bread wasted in there.”įlooding occurred just east of downtown at the Music Hall in the Fair Park cultural complex, where Tommy Tune was performing in “Stage Door Charlie” Friday night. “The supervisor yelled, ‘Everybody get out! Everybody get out!’ ” said one worker. Baird’s Bakery, setting off a two-alarm fire. ![]() About five miles from the Haggar plant, part of the roof collapsed at the Mrs. Many of the injured workers were temporary employees hired to put labels on clothes. “I feel absolutely terrible for our workers involved,” he said. ![]() “We are in the process of going through every inch where the roof came in to make sure no one is missing,” said Joe Haggar, chairman of Haggar Apparel Manufacturing.
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