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- NATION, Page 33American NotesDISASTERSThe Southwest Goes Under
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- Rampaging floodwaters continued to wash catastrophe across
- the Southwest last week, the Trinity River wreaking havoc from
- Dallas southward while the swollen Arkansas and Red rivers
- pitched into homes and fields in Arkansas, where Governor Bill
- Clinton declared 29 counties disaster areas. At the
- Texas-Oklahoma border, waters rushing out of overfilled Lake
- Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina
- complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East
- Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy,"
- said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort
- Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding
- herds of livestock and driving out hundreds of families, the
- Trinity at times looked like a vast lake. To people in its
- path, especially in Liberty County, 50 miles or so northeast
- of Houston, officials issued a blunt warning: "Get out now."
- A most discouraging word came from Trinity River Authority
- spokesman John Jadrosich, who said floods may linger through the
- summer in a "mega-natural disaster."
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