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On cusp of spring, Texas and Oklahoma Panhandle residents warned of fire danger, thunderstorm risk

5 years ago By News Staff
Today (Thursday) is expected to bring critical fire danger to the southwestern Texas Panhandle with elevated danger elsewhere in the western half of the Panhandles. Amarillo’s National Weather Service meteorologists reported yesterday that they were highly confident that elevated to critical fire danger would develop in the western Oklahoma and Texas Panhandles this afternoon. Winds out of the southwest, ranging from 20-30 mph, with gusts up to 40 mph, are anticipated.
Thursday: Critical Fire Danger

What a difference a week makes—temperature tailspin eases

5 years ago By Robin L. Mitchell
Two hundred seventy-five hours—11 1/2 days—from Monday, Feb. 8 at 1:30 am until Friday, Feb. 19 at 1:15 pm, the mercury stubbornly refused to budge above the freezing mark. Arctic air blanketed a large part of North America as two storms interacted, producing record-shattering low temperatures, wind-chill readings not seen in a generation, and snow.
Brittany and Marty Rash worked day and night for two weeks to save 22 of these poor snow-caked baby calves during the winter storm siege. Warming them and bottles full of colostrum with round-the-clock care made the difference between life and death.

Canadian Apartments to be offered at March 2 Sheriff’s Sale

5 years ago By News Staff
Canadian Apartments to be offered at March 2 Sheriff’s Sale The Canadian Apartment complex, located at 203 Birch St., will be offered for sale on the steps of Hemphill County Courthouse next Tuesday, March 2. A default judgment was issued against the property following the failure of the owners, Galen and Barbara Lusk, to pay all taxes, penalties, and interest owed against the property.
Canadian Apartments

Xcel customers are protected from extreme billing spikes

5 years ago By News Staff
AMARILLO—Winter Storm Uri made electricity more expensive to produce because of shortages in natural gas used to fuel area power plants, but Xcel Energy customers in Texas and New Mexico will be protected from the extreme billing spikes that are making news in other parts of Texas.
Bills

State Capital Highlights

5 years ago By Gary Borders
Millions of Texans dealing with water supply issues Warmer temperatures over the weekend and continuing this week melted most of the snow from the state’s roadways and roofs. But Texans are still dealing with broken pipes that flooded homes and businesses, damaged municipal water systems, and continued power outages in scattered areas, mainly in East and Central Texas.At the height of the power crisis, more than 4 million Texans were without electrical service—a number that shrank to less than 32,000 as of Sunday, according to the PowerOutage.
State Capital Highlights

Dangerous back-to-back winter storm systems threaten lives, livestock, property

5 years ago By News Staff
Cold air poured south into the U.S. this week, as arctic high pressure stretched from Canada all the way across the border into northern Mexico. Bone-chilling, pipe-bursting temperatures—averaging 40-50 degrees below normal for a huge swath of the country—brought widespread misery on a scale rarely before seen in Texas, where all 254 counties were placed under a disaster declaration last Friday as the state’s residents braced for the winter storm.
Hemphill County rancher Alan Hale took this photo of his Angus cows lined up for breakfast, then turned his attention to chopping the ice in one of the stock tanks and unfreezing the sucker rod on the windmill
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