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In Texas and Mexico, shifts in the course of the lower Rio Grande have created numerous bancos. Under the Boundary Treaty of 1970 and earlier treaties, the United States and Mexico have maintained the actual course of the river as the international boundary, but both must approve proposed changes. From 1989 to 2009, there were 128 locations ...
Peak rainfall rates measured by rain gauges in the Dallas area included 8.39 in/hr (231 mm/h) over a 5-minute interval, 8.27 in/hr (210 mm/h) over a 15-minute interval, and 4.53 in/hr (115 mm/h) over a 60-minute interval; these values were respectively 87%, 110%, and 115% the 100-year rainfall rates in Dallas for the associated time intervals.
On July 10, 1931, the Red River Bridge Company obtained an injunction against the Texas Highway Commission (now Texas Department of Transportation), keeping it from opening the new bridge. [1] The company said that the highway commission had promised in July 1930 to buy the old toll bridge for $ 60,000 (equal to $1,129,363 today). [ 2 ]
The area has been a hotspot for unaccompanied migrant kids. Just a few days ago, Texas authorities found a 2-year-old girl from El Salvador who crossed with 60 other unaccompanied children. The ...
Jeremy Slack, chair of the department of sociology and anthropology at the University of Texas at El Paso, has surveyed migrants about their experience with federal immigration enforcement agents ...
This outbreak was due to the polar jet stream dipping particularly far south into the U.S., [32] stretching from Washington to Texas, and running back north along the East Coast, allowing a polar vortex to bring very cold air across the country, and spawning multiple storms along the jet stream track as a result. [33]
Early estimates indicate up to 2,000 gallons of oil may have spilled into surrounding waters when a barge carrying fuel broke free from a tugboat and slammed into a bridge near Galveston, Texas ...
Shaded relief image of the Llano Estacado, the escarpments marking the northern, eastern, and southern edges of the Llano are clearly visible. The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877, also known as the Staked Plains Horror, occurred when a combined force of Buffalo Soldier troops of the United States Army 10th Cavalry and local buffalo hunters wandered for five days in the Llano Estacado region of ...