1979 - Hurricane Frederick smashed into the Mobile Bay area of Alabama packing 132 mph winds. Winds gusts to 145 mph were reported as the eye of the hurricane moved over Dauphin Island AL, just west of Mobile. Frederick produced a fifteen foot storm surge near the mouth of Mobile Bay. The hurricane was the costliest in U.S. history causing 2.3 billion dollars damage.
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Day: Sunny, with a high near 94. Northeast wind around 0 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 71. Northeast wind around 0 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 93. Northeast wind around 0 mph.
Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. East wind around 0 mph.
Day: Partly sunny, with a high near 93. Southeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 69.
Day: Mostly sunny, with a high near 93.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 69.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 94.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 69.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 94.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 69.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 93.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 69.
Thu's High Temperature
104 at 4 Miles South Of Tolleson, AZ and Phoenix, AZ and 3 Miles East-southeast Of Casa Grande, AZ and 3 Miles North-northeast Of Tempe, AZ
Fri's Low Temperature
26 at Austin, NV
Gibsland is a town in Bienville Parish in northern Louisiana, United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 773. The town is best known for its connecting railroads, as the birthplace of the defunct historically black Coleman College, and for being the place where notorious criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow were ambushed and killed by Texas Rangers on May 23, 1934.
Gibsland native John McConathy was a champion basketball player at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana, who later was the superintendent for the Bossier Parish School Board, in which capacity he was the guiding force behind the establishment of the $57 million Bossier Parish Community College.
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