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Wichita Falls, Texas: the good, the bad, and the ugly. We're home to the World's Littlest Skyscraper, a six-lane Farm-to-Market Road that doesn't lead to a farmers' market, highway loops that don't loop, and a record for the city of five homicides in one day in 1982. Beginning 06-30-2025, posts are in chronological order. Earlier pages feature posts in reverse chronological order.
07-03-2025 - 5:00 AM - Good Morning! It's Thursday. The Texas Rangers have won two in a row, and I don't know what to think about that. It sounds like an oversized load is coming through town with pilot cars working on CB Radio Channel 3. I found it because I had the President McKinley CB radio in the scan mode. I didn't think you could move an oversized load during hours of darkness. There's also something happening on Channel 8. I'll listen for a while. My Folgers Black Silk coffee is ready.
07-03-2025 - 5:15 AM - According to Water Data for Texas, Wichita Falls reservoirs are: Arrowhead: 98.3% Kemp: 100% Kickapoo: 100%. Monitored Water Supply Reservoirs are 99.3% full. The City of Wichita Falls uses combined levels of Arrowhead and Kickapoo (99.15%) to determine drought stage.
07-03-2025 - 5:15 AM - ERCOT (Texas) snapshot of grid conditions - ERCOT reports that conditions are normal and there is enough power for current demand with an operating reserve of 10,517 Megawatts.
07-03-2025 - 5:15 AM - NWS Forecast - Today: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 83. South southeast wind 6 to 11 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms. Tonight: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 73. South southeast wind 7 to 11 mph. New rainfall amounts of less than a tenth of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
07-03-2025 - From my WFPD consultant - I was working the "Northside" beat when I heard the Downtown beat officers dispatched to a call of a nude woman walking on Ohio Street. I was still considered a rookie but damned if I wasn't going to defy the rules and leave my beat - undispatched - to see a nude woman. So, I left my beat. I arrived in time to see the woman in all her nudist glory. All 439 pounds. On that day, I learned that a woman walking around nude is probably a little off-centered and might have specific issues that would preclude her from being one of Hugh Hefner's first choices. I ignored the several other "nude woman" reports that happened on my watch.
07-03-2025 - 6:10 AM - I hear an astronaut aboard the International Space Station, on 145.800 MHz, talking to an Earthbound Amateur (ham) Radio operator. I think it's Astro Shubhanshu Shukla. This is an Amateur (ham) Radio VHF simplex frequency so I can't hear the ground station. Plug this frequency and 437.800 MHz (repeater downlink) into your scanner, and you'll hear Amateur (Ham) Radio contacts from time to time.
More to come!