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Local Weather History For July 5th...
1960 (5th-9th): Torrential rains caused significant flooding in Plainview resulting in the evacuation of 70 homes. High
water inundated railroad tracks and highways as well as numerous homes and businesses. Two hundred people were evacuated
from their homes and fed by the Red Cross in Plainview. Intense rains also occurred farther south at Slaton where 150
homes required evacuating after unofficial reports of 16.5 inches of rain fell over the course of four days.