Arkansas Democrat-Gazette/KAREN E. SEGRAVE
4/10/09
Tornado damage along Reine Street in Mena on Friday morning. A tornado tore through Mena late Thursday night damaging or destroying much of downtown.
Photo by Karen E. Segrave
First there was the ice that blanketed the northern third of Arkansas. Then the tornado that ripped through Mena.
Next came rain - record-breaking amounts of it in 15 Arkansas cities and areas.
Long, soaking rains and quick, heavy downpours caused flooding in many neighborhoods and ruined millions of dollars in crops.
Mother Nature rounded out 2009 in the state with a white Christmas for some who had dreamed of one and more flooding for many others.
“That’s a topic of conversation every time somebody gets to talking at the coffeeshop,” Polk County Sheriff Mike Oglesby said of the weather. “I’ve never seen anything like this.”
Indeed, 2009 was a year of above- or below-average weather events, unusual flooding ...
Rainiest year for many
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