Red River Weather,
Summer 2007
My son and I are weather freaks. We enjoy chasing thunderheads and tracking radar on the
Weather Channel and on-line.

This summer has been ripe with all kinds of weather events, so we've been in weather-heaven.
We took a short trip around the area to have a look at what havoc the weather has played in this
very soggy June and July, 2007.  We encountered storms, floods, and even wall-clouds!

(And we also found a great hamburger stand in Kingston, Oklahoma, and filled up on tacos at the
best taco place around the Red River, Taco Casa).

Here are some photos of our investigation!
The Denison Dam across Lake Texoma affords wonderful views - like this view of a wall cloud over
Oklahoma. We watched the cloud for several minutes but it never formed into a tornado, thank goodness.
Lake Texoma at flood stage near the spill way. By the next day, the road
to Eisenhower State Park had been inundated with water.
David contemplates the choppy waters
of the Red River below the dam at Lake
Texoma (on the Texas side).
The old high school in Denison with a storm
brewing over head made for a beautiful picture.

The high school looks like it's going to succumb
to the wrecking ball - at least part of the building
has already been demolished. Denison has
been losing a lot of its history in the past few
years - the old Baptist Church, which Martin
Luther King, Jr., once visited, has now been
razed, and some older homes have also been
demolished. I sure wish I had the resources to
help preserve Denison, because it's such a
lovely town.
Watson's Hamburgers in Denison, a great
drive-in restaurant, was closed, so the
threatening sky didn't faze any carhops.
David's determined to walk away from the incessant
mosquitoes hounding us around the KATY depot, which is
now a very nice railroad museum with some great rolling stock.

Denison has a very interesting and pioneering railroad past
which I will cover soon in an upcoming article.