Country Lifestyles
Terrible Tuesday – April 10, 1979
By Judy Wade
Tuesday, April 10, 1979, began like any typical spring day in North Texas and Southern Oklahoma, but by nightfall disaster befell, affecting the lives of thousands forever.
It came to be known as “Terrible Tuesday.” Some of you readers are too young to remember, but some of us will never forget.
Three supercells formed to the southwest of Wichita Falls in mid-afternoon and moved northeastward. The first tornado formed south of Crowell,Texas, and moved into Vernon, killing 11. It continued to spawn tornados and moved on to Lawton, Oklahoma, causing three more fatalities. Damage in both places was horrendous.
The middle supercell produced the longest tracking tornado—a 64 mile path—but fortunately spent most of its fury over rural areas between Harrold, Texas, and Grandfield, Oklahoma.
The southernmost supercell produced its first tornado near Seymour about 4:50 p.m. A second tornado formed in Archer County heading northeast, straight for Wichita Falls. By 6 p.m. it was a full-blown EF-4, meaning it was capable of producing winds from 166-200 mph and causing extensive damage. This wall cloud was estimated to be a mile wide. It did not look like the typical funnel-shaped tornado. To read more pick up the April 2016 issue of NTFR.
Entire city blocks were leveled by the April 10, 1979, tornado in Wichita Falls. (Courtesy photo)
By Lacey Vilhauer
Ingredients:
1 whole lemon, seeded and roughly chopped
2 cups sugar
2 pounds strawberries, hulled
Juice of 1 to 2 lemons
¼ cup water
Directions:
Place the chopped lemon and sugar in a food processor and pulse until combined. Transfer to a large bowl. Puree the strawberries in a food processor and add to the lemon mixture along with juice of one lemon and water. Taste and add more juice as desired.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Nicholas Waters
As winter plods along – come Spring and gopher mounds – homeowners and farmers find themselves playing a familiar song – fiddling while Rome is burning.
Let’s make a mountain out of a molehill. Those mounds on your lawn and pasture could be moles, but they’re more than likely gophers; Plains Pocket Gophers to be pragmatic – Geomys bursarius to be scientific.
These rodents dig and chew, and the damage they can do goes beyond the mounds we mow over. Iowa State University cited a study in Nebraska showing a 35 percent loss in irrigated alfalfa fields due to the presence of pocket gophers; the number jumped to 46 percent in decreased production of non-irrigated alfalfa fields.
The internet is replete with academic research from coast-to-coast on how to curtail gopher populations, or at least control them. Kansas State University – then called Kansas State Agricultural College – also published a book [Bulletin 152] in February 1908 focused exclusively on the pocket gopher.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
By Annette Bridges
Everyone needs a room with a view that makes their heart happy. My honest favorite panorama would be either the mountains or the ocean. I have yet to convince my hubby to make permanent moves to either, although he does enjoy the visits as much as I do.
The location of our house on our ranch does not provide the expansive field of vision of our land that I would enjoy. So, I have created a room decorated and furnished in a way that gives me smiles, giggles, and a wonderful peace-filled feeling when I am hanging out in it. I am in that place right now writing this column. I am in a lounging position with my computer in my lap on the chaise that was once my sweet mama’s. I had it reupholstered this year to give it a fresh look.
To read more, pick up a copy of the April issue of NTFR magazine. To subscribe by mail, call 940-872-5922.
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