Lightning strikes near the water tower at Loop 288 and I-35 as Chance Foster and Mark Foster watch the fast moving clouds and lightning as a severe storm system moves in across Denton County, Thursday, November 5, 2015, in Denton, TX.
A gas well on the Payne lease, operated by Vantage Energy, burns during a thunderstorm after severe weather and lightning moved across North Texas, Thursday, May 7, 2015, in Denton, TX.
Denton City Council member Kevin Roden leads a discussion with area students of the Youth Advisory Council, Tuesday, October 25, 2011, in Denton, Texas.
Students from Andrea Yocum’s fifth grade class lay on the basketball court to watch during the Summit School solar eclipse watching event, Monday, April 8, 2024, in Ahwatukee, Arizona. (David Minton/Ahwatukee Foothills News)
Charot Kenyi, a junior biochemistry major at Texas Woman's University and a U.S. Army reservist, reacts while being escorted through the remains of her burned-out apartment after an overnight fire burned several units at the TWU Select Apartments at Lone Star Apartments complex at 600 Texas St. Officials believe the fire was started by a lightning strike during the thunderstorm which crossed North Texas early Wednesday morning, Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in Denton, Texas.
The twin high-rise dormitories at Texas Woman's University, 24-story Guinn Hall and 21-story Stark Hall, are refracted in rain drops on the windshield of a vehicle as rain and colder temperatures cover north texas, Tuesday, October 15, 2013, in Denton, TX.
Kids and parents play with a parachute during the C-Town Suitcase Club program “Look Up” as they learn about the sky, airplanes and clouds at the Chandler Museum, Wednesday, January 15, 2025, in Chandler, Arizona. (David Minton/Chandler Arizonan)
After a tie between the two teams, firefighter/paramedic Shane Robert shows his empty mouth to the judges and raises his arms in victory to defeat officer Cory McConnell in the first annual Firefighters versus Police rib eating contest at Texas Roadhouse, Wednesday, June 18, 2014, in Denton, TX.
Signs block the on ramp to state Route 101 at Cactus Road during roadwork on the freeway, Sunday, January 7, 2024, in Scottsdale, Arizona. (David Minton/Scottsdale Progress)
Mary Wilson and her dog Sprocket kneel outside of her tent she calls home behind the former car dealership on N Bonnie Brae St where she has been living for the past few weeks, Tuesday, March 3, 2015, in Denton, TX.
High on a scaffold, Mick Burson and Chris Aparicio work on a mural on the side of Creative Art Studio on Oak St near downton, Saturday, January 28, 2012, in Denton, Texas.
Ryan High School senior Carmen Fuentes checks her hair with a wall of mirrors as Socorro Gutierrez waits, before the start of the Ryan graduation, Friday, June 4, 2010 at The UNT Coliseum in Denton.
Strickland Middle School eighth-graders Sean Gamble and Corben Stephens run across the dam at North Lake Park during a district cross country meet Wednesday afternoon , Wednesday, November 4, 2015, in Denton, TX.
Flames erupt from the roof and a section of the living room as Denton firefighters from multiple stations respond to a house fire on Laurelwood Dr early Sunday morning, Sunday, September 27, 2015, in Denton, TX.
Denton Record-Chronicle Staff Photographer David Minton created this photo illustration of the Winter Solstice lunar eclipse by combining 21 individual photos taken over the course of two and a half hours early Tuesday morning. The sequence shows the progression of the Earth's shadow across the surface of the moon, from a bright full moon to a deep red eclipsed moon. Sunlight shining around the edges of the Earth still falls on the moon during an eclipse, but blue light is stopped as it travels through the Earth's atmosphere, causing the red coloring. Tuesday, December 21, 2010.
Hanging onto his shades, University of North Texas junior Mark Lueke wipes out at the end of a water slide at the Denton Water Works, Wednesday, June 23, 2010 in Denton.
Jared Stansel, Parker Penny, trying to catch snow in her mouth and Molly Carter of Denton walk around the Courthouse on the Square as snow falls, Tuesday, December 29, 2009 in Denton.