Important Takeaways:
- The state of Texas has been rocked by over a dozen earthquakes in just the last day, with one measuring over 3.0 on the Richter scale.
- The US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the latest quake struck just north of Odessa, Texas at 8:14am CT.
- Just 15 minutes earlier, a 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck roughly 30 miles east of Odessa.
- Since 4am CT on Wednesday, Texas has experienced 16 minor earthquakes, all along the central and western parts of the state.
- In April alone, USGS has recorded 36 earthquakes in this part of Texas, stretching from Stanton, Texas (41 miles northeast of Odessa) to Culberson County along the state’s western border with New Mexico.
- The vast majority have been very small tremors, measuring between 1.0 and 1.8 in magnitude.
- However, two quakes this morning were larger, the 3.4 magnitude quake and a 2.1 tremor 13 minutes later in the same spot – approximately 17 miles southwest of Garden City, Texas.
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Important Takeaways:
- Devastating flooding hit the Rio Grande Valley on Thursday after repeated rounds of thunderstorms dumped as much as a foot of rain in less than 48 hours.
- McAllen, Texas, took the worst of it, picking up 7.93 inches, which is good enough for the city’s third-wettest day of all time, and more than a third of their average annual rain, according to the FOX Forecast Center.
- U.S. Border Patrol agents worked through the night in the Rio Grande Valley, rescuing residents affected by the storms’ impacts.
- “Prayers for all our residents who are affected by the storm and flooding,” U.S. Border Patrol’s Rio Grande Valley Sector said.
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Important Takeaways:
- Texas Governor Greg Abbott has said “a dozen state agencies” in the Lone Star State, along with Attorney General Ken Paxton, are investigating plans by the East Plano Islamic Center (EPIC) to create a new Islamic focused settlement dubbed “EPIC City” in Collin and Hunt counties.
- In an X post on Monday Abbott wrote: “The proposed EPIC compound in Collin Co. has serious legal issues.”
- “A dozen state agencies are investigating it, the Attorney General will look into it, and legislators are considering laws to restrict it, as well as laws to prevent foreign adversaries from buying land in Texas.”
- The EPIC City proposal project is being managed by Community Capital Partners, which was “created by EPIC” according to its official website.
- If constructed EPIC City would be built on a 402-acre site which covers parts of Collin and Hunt counties. Preliminary plans include over 1,000 houses, a mosque, a faith school, a community college and sports facilities split into two sections, EPIC Ranches One and Two.
- East Plano Islamic Center resident scholar Yasir Qadhi: “EPIC City is going to be a role model community of thousands of Muslims living well-integrated.
- “We are not forming a cult. We’re not forming big barriers between the rest of society. We’re going to be giving back to this state and this country, and we’re going to be showing what it means to be a Muslim neighborhood.”
- Community Capital Partners said in a statement: “Our vision is to build a diverse and inclusive community — one in which people of every background, faith, and culture can live together in harmony. We will uphold the safety and well-being of our neighbors at every step of development, starting with thorough individualized assessments of prospective buyers to ensure they align with our goals of safety and security.”
- Plans for EPIC City are still in the preliminary stage and will be “revised based on the lot size survey from interested investors.”
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Important Takeaways:
- The APD confirmed it had responded to a report of “suspicious devices” at the Tesla dealership on Monday morning, according to KXAN News. The APD reportedly labeled the devices as being “incendiary.”
- Fox News reported that the police issued a statement that the devices “were taken into police custody without incident.”
- “This is an open and ongoing investigation,” the statement added, according to the outlet.
- Breitbart News’s Lucas Nolan previously reported that due to the ongoing attacks on Tesla vehicles and dealerships throughout the nation, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a warning calling for people to “report any suspicious activity,” they see.
- Last week, two Tesla dealerships in Las Vegas, Nevada and Kansas City, Missouri were attacked, with vehicles being damaged and set ablaze.
- Prior to this, an arsonist in Seattle “doused a Tesla EV with gasoline and set it on fire.”
- President Donald Trump recently purchased a Tesla from Elon Musk as part of “a show of confidence and support” for Musk, as he has continued to face attacks.
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Important Takeaways:
- Extremely high winds sweeping through Texas and several other states could lead to severe danger for anyone near a window on Wednesday.
- Meteorologists are warning over a million people in Amarillo and El Paso, Texas alone to expect wind gusts over 65 mph.
- The National Weather Service (NWS) added that people should stay clear of windows due to the risk of extreme winds turning anything not tied down into a projectile.
- They added that people in multi-story homes should stay on the lower levels as the dangerous gusts could knock down trees.
- AccuWeather is predicting an even larger danger zone for these winds on Wednesday – tracking gusts over 40 mph across 20 states.
- In nine of those states, high winds will likely top 50 mph, including parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, and Illinois.
- The new weather warnings come just days after a deadly storm smashed through the same region of the central US.
- On Tuesday, El Paso was already reporting wind gusts of more than 90 mph. NWS Amarillo added that ‘copious amounts’ of dust were being kicked up across central to eastern New Mexico.
- ‘Travel can be extremely dangerous during these powerful winds. We saw 18-wheelers flipped over and dust storms that reduced visibility to near-zero visibility within a matter of seconds, resulting in deadly chain-reaction pileups,’ DePodwin added.
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Important Takeaways:
- A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rocked southern Texas Wednesday night, striking nearly 45 miles southwest of the city of San Antonio.
- The US Geological Survey (USGS) detected the seismic event at 9:26pm CT near Falls City, measuring it at a depth of about 2.3 miles.
- The quake ranks as the third-strongest earthquake ever to hit South Texas, following a magnitude 4.8 quake in 2011 and a 4.7 quake in February 2024 that also hit near Falls City.
- Wednesday’s earthquake was followed by a magnitude 2.6 aftershock that struck 10.5 miles south-southeast of Stockdale, Texas around 1:17am Thursday.
- No damages or injuries have been reported from either of the quakes.
- But could be more tremors to come. The USGS predicted a 36 percent chance of magnitude 3 aftershocks following the main quake.
- The vast majority of earthquakes result from the constant movement of tectonic plates, which are massive, solid slabs of rock that make up the planetary surface and shift around on top of Earth’s mantle — the inner layer between the crust and core.
- When that stress overcomes the friction, the plates slip, causing a release of energy that ravels in waves through the Earth’s crust and generates the shaking we feel at the surface.
- But quakes of this size are quite unusual for the Lone Star State.
- Experts have not confirmed whether the magnitude 4.5 Falls City earthquake was linked to fracking, but this city is located in the Eagle Ford Shale area which is known for oil and gas production.
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Important Takeaways:
- Yet another winter storm is heading for Texas, and this one could bring more dangers than Winter Storm Blair.
- The second major winter storm of 2025 is expected to have a more southern impact before turning towards the Northeast, AccuWeather warns. Cities including Dallas, Nashville and Atlanta have chances of facing snow and ice in the coming days.
- Unlike the polar vortex, which brought arctic air down from Canada, this storm is predicted to form over Texas beginning Tuesday night through Thursday. Areas of snow, sleet, freezing rain and rain will join.
- “Exactly how quickly the storm comes together, tracks and gains strength will determine the magnitude of the snow and ice that extends from the I-20 and I-40 corridors from Texas and Oklahoma to Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia from late this week to this weekend,” AccuWeather’s Monday afternoon update says.
- This week’s snowstorm “could deliver more than a year’s worth of snow to Dallas,” AccuWeather reports. The city’s historical average annual snowfall is 1.6 inches, including sleet, the forecaster says.
- Between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 7 a.m. Friday, Dallas has a 54% chance of seeing three to six inches of snow and a 42% chance of seeing one to three inches, according to AccuWeather’s predictions.
- Due to the unusually low temperatures in Texas this week, ice poses additional dangers in this storm. Conditions will be especially precarious in northeastern portions of the state Wednesday night and Thursday. Travel will be hazardous, and the additional weight on trees and powerlines could result in power outages.
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Important Takeaways:
- A quarter century ago, prompted by a spate of abandoned babies in Houston, this state became the first in the country to pass a safe haven law allowing parents to relinquish newborns at designated places — without questions or risk of prosecution. Yet “Baby Moses” surrenders remain rare in Texas, and another series of abandoned infants since spring in the Houston area has prompted much soul-searching.
- In June, a baby boy was left next to a clothing donation bin on the city’s southeast side and a baby girl in some bushes in Katy, a western suburb. Both were saved.
- By August, two other babies had been found: in an industrial ditch in north Houston and in a trash truck’s compactor in a far northwest neighborhood. Both were dead.
- The latest occurred just before Christmas at a Whataburger in San Antonio.
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Important Takeaways:
- Sears has closed its final store in Washington, leaving it operating in only four states across the US.
- The department store, which was once the largest in the country, closed an outlet in the Southcenter Mall in Tukwila, Washington, on December 15.
- In the weeks leading up to its closure, the store, which had been there for three decades, hosted discount sales for shoppers.
- Its closure means that Sears only has eight stores remaining across California, Florida, Massachusetts and Texas.
- The department store was founded in 1892, and as recently as 2012 boasted over 4,000 stores across the US.
- But the vast majority have now shuttered since the company filed for bankruptcy in October 2018.
- The company also closed its final location in the New York area at the beginning of this year.
- Plans for the company going forward are unclear, and it is not known whether further closures are planned in 2025.
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Important Takeaways:
- A dangerous Venezuelan gang has taken over at least four apartment complexes in San Antonio, Texas, as it expands its reach in yet another America city, DailyMail.com can reveal.
- Dubbed the ‘epitome of evil’, Tren de Aragua (TdA) is known to run drug smuggling, child prostitution and human trafficking rings in South America, with its members crossing over into the US in recent years amid a wave of Venezuelan migrants.
- The tattooed mobsters have since unleashed a wave of crime across the country from Miami and Texas to Denver and New York.
- The gang’s activities in the American cities are back in the spotlight after ABC News’ Martha Raddatz claimed the instances of gang members’ presence in apartments was limited to a ‘handful’ of complexes in Aurora, Colorado.
- Just last week a small army of police officers raided an apartment complex in San Antonio and arrested 19 individuals – including four gang members.
- Law enforcement sources confirmed TdA had been operating at the Palatia Apartments for five to six months – squatting in empty units they either rented out to other migrants, used as a base to deal cocaine or, most horrifically, as prostitution dens to pimp out women and children.
- But now DailyMail.com can reveal that this apartment invasion is just the tip of the iceberg in the major southern Texas city, with at least three other rental properties also occupied by the criminal organization.
- com is not naming the three other apartment complexes to avoid jeopardizing ongoing police investigations.
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