HURRICANE, TORNADOES, FLOODS WRECK SOUTH TEXAS - Eugene M Walter - November 1967

Eugene M Walter

First it was vicious Hurricane Beulah. Then scores of tornadoes combined with torrential rains. Finally, the most devastating floods in Texas' history. WHY did it happen - and what does it mean? Read the answer in this on-the-spot report from our Texas staff. It is now admitted. One billion dollars estimated property damage. Hundreds of homes obliterated by hurricane winds. Thousands more devastatingly flooded by 10-foot tides, crashing waves and twenty-inch-plus rains - on the heels of a severe drought. Electrical and communications systems "damaged unbelievably." Millions of dollars' worth of citrus fruit, just in the beginning stages of harvest, knocked to the ground; numerous fruit trees uprooted and destroyed. At least seventy tornadoes (some reports said more than 100) spawned in the aftermath. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library