Channel 7 News | Very Busy Times Lately!

Billy's Newstar Adventures

Sunday April 06, 2008 at 6:58 pm

Very Busy Times Lately!

This has been a very active two weeks in the state. Between the flooding and more tornadoes, it has been very hectic for us in the Newstar office. We have been to Batesville, Clarendon, Des Arc, Georgetown, Newport, Jasper and many other places for flooding. Then last week, the unfortunate accident happened on the I-430 Bridge (click for story), and we were there as well. Then as that was winding down, we had more tornadoes that hit very close to home I actually was on I-40 going into work when the tornado crossed right over me going from Little Rock into North Little Rock. A very scary moment indeed. I was sent to Saline County where I met up with Michelle Rupp, Heather Crawford, and Photographers Dana Moseley, Tim Hamilton, and Rich Newman. We then found ourselves in the middle of another storm heading our way. We then headed to the Bryant First Pentecostal Church for shelter from that other storm. Due to lightening, we were not able to get a live shot out until about 1:15 on Friday morning. We don't even chance putting the dish up on the trucks while it is lightening. We then did Daybreak from Cantrell and Mississippi in the Harvest Food's parking lot where the LRPD had their command center set up. For Good Morning Arkansas and Midday, we were at the corner of Greenwood Road and Palisades Road in Cammack Village. I have posted a few pictures below of the damage I have seen from flooding to tornado damage over the past two weeks. They are in no particular order as I just snapped them as we went. I have posted many more here on the old blog page.

-B

Highway 36 just east of West Point. This is the only route in and out of Georgetown, Arkansas.

This spot is underwater in the above picture. This was a few days before the water rose above the road.

Newstar facing flood waters in Des Arc on Highway 38, just west of the White River bridge.

This is Hurricane Creek Mobile Home Park. To the left of this picture is the tornado siren that was credited with saving lives here. The Benton Police Chief told me that it was going off about an hour before the storm hit. The road is Highway 5 and the siren is about 100 yards away from the park itself.

More pictrues on the old blog page. You can get there by clicking here.

posted by Billy Cannon

share this |

permalink |

email |

rss |


Your Name (appears on your post)

For security reasons, please type in the above letters
Please leave your comments below:

Comments on Very Busy Times Lately!

Visionary

1:29 pm on 04/09/08

You have one of the coolest jobs. Driving Arkansas roads, visiting areas of interest, taking pictures of almost anything and sharing some of those pictures with us then on top of that you get paid for it. Thanks for sharing a camera's eye view. Rick

» report abuse

Search Posts