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.
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 has succumbed to the wrecking ball. 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 is a drive-in across
from the abandoned high school in Denison.
It  was closed that day, 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 railroad museum with some great
rolling stock.