FM 1053 is back open after being closed for nearly five days due to significant rainfall that caused a crack (where the big dip is on the highway).
"Thanks to repair work by the Monahans Maintenance crew and some help from a few other district employees," said Gene Powell, Texas Department of Transportation Odessa District's Public Information Officer.
The public is welcome to attend the Fort Stockton ISD Facilities Planning meeting on Wed. Aug. 31 starting at 6 p.m. at the Butz Campus – located at 400 S. Young St.
Pictured is the agenda for the meeting.
A call for trespassing in Fort Stockton ended with a pursuit and arrest of a former resident of the city on Aug. 18.
Andres Garcia, 37, was arrested on eight charges, including three counts of aggravated assault against a public servant following a pursuit in Fort Stockton by law enforcement.
The Texas Department of Transportation reported on Tuesday morning that FM 1053 is still closed to through traffic between FM 11 and FM 1450 south of Imperial.
Heavy rains caused large cracks in the surface of the road beginning on Saturday evening. Local traffic will still have access, but no traffic is allowed to pass by the subsidence about 6 miles south of Imperial.
Crews are currently working on repairs, but there is no timeline for reopening as of now. Please do not move barricades; that is a criminal offense.
As Texas gets at least a temporary reprieve this week from the heat, with a nice round of rain blanketing much of the state, the Old Farmer’s Almanac is predicting January will bring significant snowfall to the state.
The periodical, founded in 1818, develops its extended forecast “using a 204-year-old mathematical formula focused on sunspot activity, planet positions and tidal actions of the moon.” The almanac’s website claims its forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate.
