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Inland areas suffer Page 4 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY, JUNE ss fcjj Hurricane damage not limited to coastline yt info 11 Knf u A hurricane has many facets, but regardless of its size or in tensity, when it strikes the coast of Texas, it affects the lives of thousands and possibly millions of Texans. “Besides the obvious physical damages due to storm surge, high winds, and high tides there are also damages due to large amounts of rainfall that may ex tend inland for many hundreds of miles,” said TAMU meteor ologist Dr. Dennis Driscoll. This rainfall sometimes helps relieve drought, but more often it causes widespread flooding, harmful ero sion and ruined crops. “This huge swirling storm cov ers thousands, sometimes hun dreds of thousands of square miles,” he said. “Peak winds may exceed 200 miles per hour. It is the most destructive weather phenomenon known to man.” “In one respect, hurricanes are like snowflakes: no two are ex actly alike,” Patrick McCormack graduate researcher said. “They can form anywhere from off the West Coast of Africa to about 150 miles off the coast of Texas. “Tropical cyclones form only during certain seasons of the year and only in certain regions of the oceans,” he said. “Since 1871, which is as far back as our records extend, no tropical cy clone has hit the coast of Texas before June or after October. Tests to provide tire standards By January everyone in the U.S. will be able to tell just ex actly what they’re getting when they buy a tire. It’s happening as the result of tests being done in San Angelo by a group of TAMU researchers and the Department of Transpor tation. Tires are going to have three ratings — the 3-Ts: Treadwear, Traction, and Temperature. “Equipment calibration and traction tests started Monday, and data will be collected in time to begin rating the tiremakers who expect to begin tests in July,” re searcher Bob Callaway said. “The tests are being run on special sur faces we’ve laid down at Good- fellow (AFB). One surface is Portland cement and the other asphalt. “The way it works is that each surface is subdivided into seg ments,” he said. “Each day, the Safety Systems Laboratory of the Federal Highway Administration will prepare a segment for test by representatives of the rubber companies. “A 12-foot wide by 300-foot pad will be divided into 10 strips 14 inches wide,” Callaway said. “The DOT (Department of Trans portation) has a standard trailer that uses standard test tires. Tests at 40 miles per hour will produce a locked-wheel skid num ber. “The equipment will run on one strip, then move over and run again on the next until the ten sub-segments are used,” he said. “A full series of tests will take two weeks.” Callaway said the test will use a tire-rotation system set up by the DOT. “The test trailers will have an internal watering sys tem that applies 0.02 inches of water on the pads,” he said. “Skid characteristics on both pads will be used to produce tire skid rat ings. An O will represent the least amount of friction and two stars the highest.” The testing procedures for treadwear are set up to match the manufacturer’s products against the DOT standards. All manufacturers who want to sell tires in the U.S. must have their tires graded in the San An gelo tests. Manufacturers then must mold the ratings into the tire. “This doesn’t mean that they can’t form or strike Texas dur ing other months,” Driscoll said, “because, new weather records are established almost every day. Hurricanes have formed as early as February and as late as De cember, but for Texas the season of vulnerability has been from June through October. “The costliest, in terms of lives lost, ever to hit the Texas coast was the great Galveston hurri cane of September 8-10, 1900,” Driscoll said. “More than 3,600 homes were completely razed as storm surge tides of 15 to 20 feet swept the first two to five blocks of the east, south and west sections of the city.” “Many people evacuated but an estimated 6,000 to 8,000 people died: about 90 per cent of the people who remained on the is land,” McCormack said. “This makes it the worst weather dis aster in U.S. history. “Beulah in 1967 was another uniques Texas hurricane,” he said. “Not only did it drench the state with the greatest amounts of rainfall, but it also spawned more tornadoes—over lOO—than any hurricane on record. Some areas received 30 inches of rain in less than four days. “On the average, one tropica! storm or one hurricane occurs every year,” Driscoll said. “But everyone must be aware that hur- icanes do not understand aver ages and each behaves without regard to previous cyclones." Dinner theater tickets still on sale at box office Some choice seats remain for the dinner theater production, “What The Butler Saw,” start ing Thursday at TAMU. It’s a first-time entertainment offer. The Aggie Players, Food Serv ice Department and Memorial PACKAGE OF TWO NYLON PANTY HOSE Our Reg. $1 Limit 2 Pkgs. 47 CHEEZ n CRACKERS SNACKTIME TREAT Our Reg. 8/990 *9 Q Limit 6 Jf Ea . 12”x200-FT. PLASTIC WRAP Our Reg. 66c >9^7C Limit 2 M Copyright ® 1975 by S. S. KRESGE Company MEN'S STRETCH CREW SOCKS 47 Our Reg. 78cC Limit 4 Red or Grape SVz-Oz. Net Wt. 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