against where we believe it s normally parked, but you could see how strong the winds were that it lifted it up just enough that it was pushed up against a back wall there. then in a neighbor s house there was an rv that was flipped over. emergency officials this morning are concerned that folks have started to leave their homes because they ve been indoors for the last couple of days. there is not a single traffic light that we saw on our drive coming down south here that has any power. we didn t really see any police officers at any of these intersections. folks as you can imagine are a bit testy, some folks are trying to get gas, they ve stopped to ask us if we knew where they could find a place to go ahead and fill up. we only saw two gas stations by i-75, way out east, that had gas and they were open this morning, but we weren t sure if they had a supply still on hand. jim and poppy? so much pain, so much destruction, it s going to take a very long time for them to get back on t
but after being born in marshall, texas in the twenties, when she was 12 in june 1939 she and her family moved 200 miles was all the way to fourth worth. it was her and her two siblings and her mom and dad. they move all the way from the they paid $165 for their house on east any street and new york avenue. it s a neighborhood today that is hemmed in on three sides by a zillion lanes of interstate and major highways it has the effect of cutting it off from the rest of forth worth. back in the late 1930s, that was before all the interstates and all of that. the most important thing to know about that neighborhood when it comes to young 12 year old opal and her family was that they were a black family, that was moving in from way out east by louisiana lake. that neighborhood the removing
avenue in ft. worth in the fifth ward in ft. worth. a neighborhood today that is hemmed in on three sides bay zillion lanes of interstate and major highways that sort of have the effect of cutting it off from a lot of the rest of ft. worth, but back in the late 1930s, that of course was before all of the interstates and all of that, and the most important thing to know about that neighborhood when it came to young 12-year-old opal and her family, was that they were a black family that was moving in, from way out east by the louisiana line, and that neighborhood they were moving into was a mostly white neighborhood at east annie street in ft. worth, they moved there in june of 1939 and told by a local real estate agent they would be fine even though they were a black family moving into a mostly white neighborhood. it was not fine. they did not last a week. and it made the local news in the headlines that are still hard to look at today.
gust of wind. the pilot aimed for a yard and the basket bounced around before it stopped. that is not cool. medics took one person to the hospital complaining of back pain. that is remarkable. just one person? martha: can t people just get married in a church? when did weddings become can you top this game? bill: that is novel. they still had the party by the way. get back to you on the honeymoon. martha: now this. superstorm sandy damaging and destroying tens of thousands of cars. we talked about this right. boats, cars all the stuff left in the wake of this form. now a new york airport runway has become a massive parking lot. this automobile graveyard is generating millions of dollars though in revenue and some controversy as well. rick leventhal is live in river head, long island, today. rick, looks like no place to land a plane there. reporter: that s right, martha. this executive airpark is closed for the winter. it is owned by the town of river head, way out east on new york s