{"id":333456,"date":"2025-10-26T08:48:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/333456\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T08:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T08:48:20","slug":"storms-damage-homes-arts-fest-in-fort-worth-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/333456\/","title":{"rendered":"Storms damage homes, Arts Fest in Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Brief<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fort Worth residents are cleaning up after severe storms toppled trees, tore roofs, and knocked out power.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Homeowners returned to major damage and downed power lines, but say they\u2019re grateful to be safe.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Artists at Fort Worth\u2019s Arts Fest also suffered losses, with some tents and artwork completely destroyed by the storms.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>FORT WORTH, Texas<\/strong> &#8211; While the DFW Metroplex saw continuing heavy rain Saturday, many in Fort Worth were already dealing with the aftermath of Friday night\u2019s storms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Trees toppled over cars, knocked down power lines, tore roofs and damaged sheds Friday night in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth residents suffer storm damage<img alt=\"&lt;div&gt;Fort Worth storm damage&lt;\/div&gt;\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1762282cca85fcd97cc43be643cfbb72.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sara and Segundo Ruiz came home to find a tree knocked over into a power line in their backyard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;When we arrived home, before we left, we could already see our ceiling pretty damp, so let\u2019s just hope we don\u2019t arrive to a broken-down ceiling,&#8221; Sara said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">They left and are waiting for it to be safe for them to go back home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We don\u2019t know what we\u2019re going to arrive home to right now,&#8221; Sara said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It is going to be very costly. It has damaged for sure our roof, and for sure the inside of our home,&#8221; Sara said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Ruiz\u2019s said they\u2019re thankful to have such kind and helpful neighbors, and they\u2019re all just looking out for each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">But they\u2019re only one of many being impacted.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Worth Arts Fest<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jason Barnett is an artist participating at Arts Fest, a three-day festival in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Just devastation. Tents knocked over everywhere, stuff floating away,&#8221; Bernett said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;This tent had partially collapsed with a huge bubble in the middle of it busted, water getting everywhere, ruining paintings,&#8221; he continued.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While the artists had tried to prepare for the rain, Friday night&#8217;s storms were very strong, and it impacted their livelihood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There were other people here who completely lost everything,&#8221; Barnett said. &#8220;A guy with glass right here by me, his entire tent collapsed, all his hand-blown glass just destroyed. He came all the way from Houston, and so he had to turn and leave last night with his whole tent because he had nothing left.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>The Source<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Information in this report came from FOX 4 interviews in Fort Worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Fort Worth residents are cleaning up after severe storms toppled trees, tore roofs, and knocked out&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":333457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,165314,164929,7371,7372,165315,22857,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-333456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arts-fest","10":"tag-downed-power-lines","11":"tag-fort-worth","12":"tag-fortworth","13":"tag-jason-barnett","14":"tag-severe-storms","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115439606992911941","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}