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Top Aviation Headline
Airport & Classic Planes Battered By Storm
-Article posted Aprill 30th, 2006
Thunderstorms with powerful winds battered North and Southeast Texas late Friday and early Saturday, pushing small planes into each other at a Gainesville airport and damaging homes in San Jacinto and Liberty counties. Authorities said no serious injuries were reported due to the storms.
North Texas was hit by storms with winds up to 100 mph and hail the size of baseballs.
"When you have winds from 80 to 100 mph it can do damage similar to that of a tornado," said Jesse Moore, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. "That can do some very, very big damage."
At the Gainesville Municipal Airport, hangars were damaged and planes that were outside were pushed into each other by the high winds, said Airport Director Matt Quick.
"They were basically just blown into each other," he said.
Most of the damage to the airport that houses private planes was on the east side, said Quick.
Quick said that about 15 planes were damaged at the airport where about 70 aircraft are based. Aerial pictures showed at least two DC-3s tangled in the wreckage.
The same storm system that hit North Texas, then moved early Saturday to the southeast part of the state, said Patrick Blood, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service Houston/Galveston office.
There was some street flooding in the Houston area but no serious damage was reported. About 4,000 customers in the Houston area lost power during the storm, said officials with CenterPoint Energy.
For pictures of the airport damage, go to www.cnn.com.
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