May 25, 2007
Polvadera, New Mexico
Photographer states :: Green Storm - A different area of the sky showing the clouds from a fairly strong thunderstorm just passed through with 30mph winds, heavy rain, and a bit of hail. This is a single RAW image with minimal processing, just a little contrast adjustment.
Green clouds such as these are usually hail clouds. Dangerous stuff. Hail can accompany tornadoes.
"By Justin Cox
Killeen Daily Herald
Ravaging floodwaters claimed the lives of at least five people in the Killeen area in less than a 12-hour period during the overnight hours Thursday.
Three of the five victims met their fate in Killeen, and one man is still missing, while two others died in Copperas Cove.
Carroll Smith, public information coordienator for the Killeen Police Department, said authorities were called after a report of an overturned vehicle on Watercrest Drive between 8 and 9 p.m. Thursday. A woman and two of her children had been rescued from her white Ford Excursion.
But her two other children remained trapped in the vehicle and could not be rescued, Smith said, adding that the SUV was swept away in the swift current, eventually sinking below the surface.
Divers from the Morgan's Point Water Recovery Team were not able to locate the vehicle until 8:32 a.m. Friday, when the two boys, 5-year-old Jarvis Tarrance, and 6-year-old Javiante Tarrance, were recovered from the vehicle, stuck engine down in an estimated 18 feet of water that flowed across Watercrest Drive.
Justice of the Peace Garland Potvin pronounced the two brothers dead at just after 9 a.m.
Potvin said the mother and the two other children, a 3-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy, owe their lives to a man who transported them from their flooding vehicle by canoe to the safety of the banks."
The mother drove the vehicle into the water, and it got picked up and carried it off the roadway," Potvin said. "He just heard the screaming, and he went and tried to help. He got in his canoe and paddled out there to help."
That guy saved three of them, because they wouldn't have gotten out of there by themselves, I don't believe."
Potvin said the height of the water at that location was unprecedented...."
