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TYLER \u2013 Storms that ripped through the area on Friday night left severe damage and flooding all across East Texas according to our news partner KETK. The City of Lindale had water overflowing into parts of downtown and multiple county roads. Lindale Candy Company\u2019s building experienced flooding and closed their candy viewing area due to the extensive water in the back of the store. Lindale\u2019s Lorraine Lake washed out after the dam broke due to the high rainwater. <\/p>\n
Smith County was not the only one\u2019s dealing with Friday night\u2019s storms, another intense storm ripped through the town of Hawkins. The strong winds downed trees and powerlines blocking people from reaching their homes like Jay Boyce who had trees blocking his road.<\/p>\n
\u201cA tornado just passed through here and it knocked down everything,\u201d Boyce said. \u201cIt blew off the roofs of houses, trees and knocked down 100-year-old trees. We\u2019re just trying to get home to our houses.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was also extensive damage done to the Ozarka bottled water facility in Hawkins with portions of their roof scattered around in front of their building. Trees were laying across the parking lot and poles were ripped from the ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cLarge pine trees just taken out like twigs. Over here we\u2019re seeing a lot more as far as tree damage goes,\u201d Texas Direct Roofing and Construction employee Christian Trammell said. <\/p>\n
People who were helping the recovery process said it was a scary night but they\u2019re thankful everyone is safe. <\/p>\n
\u201cYou just have to remember, stuff is stuff, lives are so much more important,\u201d Trammell said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER \u2013 Storms that ripped through the area on Friday night left severe damage and flooding all across East Texas according to our news partner KETK. The City of Lindale had water overflowing into parts of downtown and multiple county roads. Lindale Candy Company\u2019s building experienced flooding and closed their candy viewing area due to … Continue reading Severe weather leaves damage, flooding all across East Texas<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1403018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-06_135546-203x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 22:15:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/04\/2025-04-06_135546-203x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1403019,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403016\/revisions\/1403019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1403018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}