Page 4 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1975
Hurricane’s wind
greatest on earth
“Hurricanes are the greatest
storms on earth, TAMU
meteorologist Dr. Dennis Driscoll
said. “During the first 60 years of
this century, 17,000 lives were lost
while property damage amounted
to $5 billion in the United States
alone.
“Texas holds two records for hur
ricanes,” he said. “The Galveston
Hurricane in 1900 caused the most
deaths — 6,000 to 8,000 — while
Hurricane Beulah in 1967 spawned
the most tornadoes, over 100.
“High winds can cause major
damage,” Driscoll said. Hurricanes
have sustained winds of 74 mph or
greater and in an extreme hurricane
the strongest gust may exceed 200
mph.
“With winds around 50 mph tree
branches can break and significant
damage can occur to structures,” he
said. “At 160 mph over 100,000
pounds of force would be exerted on
the side of a house 10 feet high and
100 feet long. With a driving rain
the force is even greater. Few build
ings are designed to withstand such
force.
“The storm surge is an abnormal
rise in the level of the sea which
causes the greatest concentration of
death and destruction in a hur
ricane,” Patrick McCormack,
graduate researcher said. “The con
tinual pounding of the storm surge
can destroy almost any manmade
structure.
“When Hurricane Camille hit the
Mississippi coast in 1969, the storm
surge destroyed numerous struc
tures, including a three-story,
40-unit apartment building, he
said. “Only the foundations re
mained. About a dozen tenants held
a hurricane party during the storm.
To my knowledge their bodies were
never found.
“In Hurricane Audrey in 1957 it is
thought that the majority of people
who drowned sought safety by
climbing into high trees and then
fell into the rising flood waters after
they were bitten by snakes also tak
ing refuge in the trees. Dr. Dris
coll said.
“Floodwaters of the storm surge
usually come in like a high tide but
rise much faster,” he said. “Sur
vivors have described the sudden
inflow as ‘great walls of water which
swept all before them . Forecast of
this condition is beyond present
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noticeable difference.
“It could in Thailand,” Maxwell
said. “Particularly if it were done
with delicacy and without offending
the Thai people.
We have been very gauche
(along these lines),” he said.
The reason, as Maxwell views it,
is partly because of Congressional
pressure on AID, forcing the agency
to “do things they know are not
wise.
“AID knows better than to give
assistance on a need basis,” he
added. He also said that there are
peojjle in AID and the U. S. gov
ernment who are sensitive in deal
ings with the Thais.
The Thai-speaking TAMU official
stated that Thailand is “a nation of
wonderful people who, with one ex
ception, have a history of skillful di
plomacy. ”
The exception was abandonment
of a position of neutrality in striking
an alliance with the U. S. in the
Vietnam war.
“Now they are in the process of
pulling back from being a com
pletely staunch U. S. ally,” Maxwell
said.
“But the Thai are a tolerant, for
giving people) despite their own
biases and mistakes that we have
made,” he said. “They are charming
and engaging. We could learn much
from them. They are a gentle people
who abhor violence. In their last re
volution, some people were killed.
Several before that had no injuries,
much less casualties.”
In Thai student riots against
Japan, Maxwell said, demonstra
tions consisted “almost totally of
burning paper models of Japanese
cars.
Thailand is a country the size of
France with a 40 million population
that is rapidly growing, Maxwell
said. Its economy is based on rice
exports, in which it is the world’s
largest.
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tion growth and improve their ag
riculture, he said, “I think they will
be able to make it — and stay non-
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“Another type of destruction in a
hurricane is the rainfall,” Driscoll
said. “Heavy rainfall can cause flash
floods and river system floods, both
of which can produce extreme dam
age-
“Beulah’s rainfall exceeded 30 in
ches in some places, which caused
severe flooding in South Texas and
North Central Mexico, ” he said. “It
also caused the Rio Grande to over
flow its banks.
“Tornadoes are spawned by hur
ricanes, Driscoll said. “Beulah
holds the record for tornadoes with
more than 100. Generally tornadoes
occur to the right of the direction of
hurricane movement between 60 to
240 miles from the eye. Tornadoes
occur more frequently when a hur
ricane moves northward.”
Driscoll said that man is also a
destructive force during hurricanes.
“During every disaster there are
people who take advantage of the
confusion and misery to loot and
pilfer, he said.
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