Talk:Ben Ficklin, Texas
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I have added 31°24′10″N 100°26′24″W / 31.402813°N 100.440035°W as the coordinates. This is the site of the granite Texas State Historical Marker entitled "Site of Ben Ficklin", but a local historian has said in a non-reliable source that the actual site was not actually at the marker, but was "the low area along the river west of the granite marker" (and my observation over many years — admittedly
1885 Ostrich Egg Sized Hail put the fish of the Concho into torpor and killed people on a stage coach crossing the dry riverbed suddenly hit by a 15-20 foot wall of water.
In 1885, Isaac Cline, who later in his life became a well known weather expert who survived the 1900 Galveston Hurricane, was sent to live and work for what would later become the National Weather Service at Fort Concho. He wrote about people from the town of Ben Ficklin who had to flee after a storm dropped Ostrich Egg Sized Hail. He reported witnessing the fish of the Concho going into torpor as the hail melted filling the river with ice melt water. He witnessed people on a stage coach crossing the dry riverbed suddenly hit by a 15-20 foot wall of water and being killed by it. He ran to safety when he saw the wall of water. Check out his diary, his report he wrote and the short write up of this storm in Erik Larson’s book, Isaac’s Storm. 50.86.98.172 (talk) 22:54, 21 June 2022 (UTC)