Dodson news for the week of June 22, 2016

When I was halfway to Malta on Saturday, I saw the biggest-Fattest snake crossing the road. Had to be a bull snake or rattler, too much on-coming traffic to back up and see, but he was big.

We had the worst storm on Saturday evening about 6:00 pm. Fierce wind and heavy rain, had to be close to 100 mile an hour winds. Trees around town were broken down, a corner of the grandstand roof at the fairgrounds lifted. To look outside it looked like the pictures you see of typhoons in the tropics. Good thing it was moving fast thru and only lasted about 45 minutes. Blew a parked train off the tracks...