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The FWPD Collection - Fort Worth Flood of 1949
Fort Worth Police Historical Association
Silent | 1949 | Color | English

Categories:
Fort Worth
Floods
1940s
Texas Locations:
Tarrant County
Fort Worth
This footage from the Fort Worth Police Historical Association captures flooding in Fort Worth and surrounding neighborhoods during the floods of May, 1949. Residents wade through rising waters carrying furniture and other belongings to higher ground as others steer motor boats and rafts along the flooded city streets. Other sequences follow emergency workers tending to a flood victim and flooding at the bustling intersection of 7th Avenue, University Drive, Camp Bowie Boulevard, and Bailey Avenue. The flood sequences are followed by footage of what appears to be motor boat racing or training exercises held on a swollen river as spectators look on.
Sister Betty Ware
2017-09-09 15:58:52
At the time of this 1949 flood I was 7 years old, my mother and father and three children were carried out to safety in boat, by God sent Angels, By God grace and mercy my sister, brother and I are still here, praise God!! When I look back or think back me being 7,my brother 4, my sister still in my mother womb,that in such a sad disaster,I must say what an Amazing and Mighty God We serve. So many of us were in the Bottom, but God carried us to the Top. If you have never been in a Flood, I pray to God that you never will, but if you do just know that God is with you. Let us pray for all of those who are in the paths of Harvey and Irma hurricanes, that God watch over and keep them safe, in the name of Jesus. Have a Blessed and Safe Saturday in God care.
Sister Betty Ware
2017-09-09 15:58:52
At the time of this 1949 flood I was 7 years old, my mother and father and three children were carried out to safety in boat, by God sent Angels, By God grace and mercy my sister, brother and I are still here, praise God!! When I look back or think back me being 7,my brother 4, my sister still in my mother womb,that in such a sad disaster,I must say what an Amazing and Mighty God We serve. So many of us were in the Bottom, but God carried us to the Top. If you have never been in a Flood, I pray to God that you never will, but if you do just know that God is with you. Let us pray for all of those who are in the paths of Harvey and Irma hurricanes, that God watch over and keep them safe, in the name of Jesus. Have a Blessed and Safe Saturday in God care.
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