1970 - A lightning bolt struck a group of football players at Gibbs High School in Saint Petersburg FL, killing two persons and injuring 22 others. All the thirty-eight players and four coaches were knocked off their feet.
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Day: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 87. Northeast wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 66. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 85. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
Night: Clear, with a low around 61. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 87. Northeast wind around 5 mph.
Night: Clear, with a low around 66. Northeast wind around 0 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 91. Northeast wind 0 to 5 mph.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 70. East wind 0 to 5 mph.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 92.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 70.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 92.
Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 71.
Day: Sunny, with a high near 92.
Sat's High Temperature
110 at Death Valley, CA and Stovepipe Wells, CA
Sat's Low Temperature
23 at 16 Miles West Of Redfeather Lakes, CO
Vidor ( VY-dər) is a city in western Orange County, Texas, United States. A city of Southeast Texas, it lies at the intersection of Interstate 10 and Farm to Market Road 105, 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Beaumont. The town is mainly a bedroom community for the nearby refining complexes in Beaumont and Port Arthur and is part of the Beaumont-Port Arthur metropolitan statistical area. The population was 9,789 at the 2020 census.
Historically, Vidor has been described as a sundown town, a term used to describe racially homogeneous communities, specifically all-white towns, that have shown hostility to people of other races after sunset. Vidor's segregated public housing practices were formally abolished in 1993 after U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice issued an order to desegregate 36 counties in Texas, which included public housing in Vidor. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) responded by hosting rallies in support of an all-white Vidor, though some citizens protested the anti-Black coalition.
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