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Here was Holliday Creek in Wichita Falls during the Valentine's Day Duststorm of '23.

What a place!

 

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In Wichita Falls, Texas, on February 14th, 2023, Holliday Creek as viewed from the Circle Trail west of Jasper Street, during a duststorm.

 

Holliday Creek flows to the Wichita River, which flows to the Red River, which historically flowed to the Mississippi River, but which now flows to the Atchafalaya River, which flows to the Gulf of Mexico.

 

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Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names terms:

• Great Plains (1110996)

• Holliday Creek (1133414)

• Wichita (county) (2002092)

• Wichita Falls (7014626)

 

Art & Architecture Thesaurus terms:

• artificial water channels (300133792)

• duststorms (300054740)

• flood control (300055278)

• grass (plant) (300132397)

• riverine landscapes (300435110)

• rivers (300008707)

• urban landscapes (300132447)

• winter (300133101)

 

Wikidata items:

• 14 February 2023 (Q69306709)

• 2022-23 North American winter (Q114585888)

• Atchafalaya River drainage basin (Q117282797)

• Broken Red Plains (Q122937174)

• Central and Southern mixed grasslands (Q5062062)

• Central Great Plains (Q14710395)

• Circle Trail (Q123136854)

• February 14 (Q2332)

• February 2023 (Q61312937)

• flag of the United States of America (Q42537)

• haze (Q643546)

• Holliday Creek (Q16995668)

• Little Arkansas Treaty (Q6648935)

• North Texas (Q3493922)

• Red River drainage basin (Q117283017)

• river engineering (Q1187134)

• stream channelization (Q42296746)

• Treaty with the Comanche and Kiowa, 1865 (Q116841115)

• Valentine's Day (Q37587)

 

Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• Rivers—Texas (sh85114410)

• Wichita River Watershed (Tex.) (sh2006002294)

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Uploaded on November 30, 2023
Taken on February 14, 2023