Bryan Floodway

We're under a tornado watch till 11 p.m., and Oncor's still working to get power to some 80,000 homes still in the hot, sticky dark. So, fittingly, we'll end this long, wet week with an image provided by Web Mayfield, taken yesterday on Bryan Parkway just east of Beacon Street...

By Robert Wilonsky

June 12, 2009

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We're under a tornado watch till 11 p.m., and Oncor's still working to get power to some 80,000 homes still in the hot, sticky dark. So, fittingly, we'll end this long, wet week with an image provided by Web Mayfield, taken yesterday on Bryan Parkway just east of Beacon Street. "Limbs, garbage cans and garbage flowing down the street had jammed between the two cars and made a sort of dam," he writes in an e-mail sent to Unfair Park. Sounds delicious.

Robert Wilonsky

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