rricane overdue
THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1979
Page 9
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nts of the Texas coast may
ome complacent about the
s potential of a hurricane,
almost eight years since
:orm has caused loss of life
^espread damage on the
th a hurricane or a large
torm striking Texas on the
at least one every two
367 miles of coastline is
;go\|rdue. And scientists fear a
^Be at the wrong place would
major disaster unless pre-
itioifery steps are taken, and
3n.
people consider the 100 to
per hour winds generally
[d with the giant storms as
extreme danger,
ccording to scientists, it is
li surge — a giant flood tide
ji.s unquestionably the most
ns part of a hurricane. The
(rge, according to statistics,
ksible for nine out of every
pane deaths.
forces near the hur-
ore cause an abnormal rise
la level that can range from
Imore than 20 feet above
fide, and is often 50 miles
ling to a coastal transporta-
fort recently prepared by
tM University researchers,
1 evacuation of the Texas Gulf
ist illands in anticipation of a
^■ricane — and the resulting
Vrge — is virtually impossi-
[■foot tides could cut off res-
f Galveston, South Padre
tang Islands — as well as
ar Peninsula — as far as 36
iij advance of the hurricane s
said Texas Transportation
itftute researcher Thomas Ur-
lik.
And under the best of condi-
jranoiiP> ^ ta ^ e almost 13 hours
>y Galveston Island alone,
Jjestimates of two hours for
^■and over three hours for
istang Island.”
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Those figures do not include the
influx of thousands of tourists that
visit the barrier islands during the
June 1 to Oct. 15 hurricane season,
he said.
“If that (report) don’t scare the
hell out of you, you don’t live on the
coast,” said Galveston state Sen.
A.R. Schwartz, chairman of Texas
Coastal and Marine Council.
In 1900, 6,000 persons died on
Galveston Island in a hurricane. It
was the worst natural disaster in the
history of the United States, and
created largely because there was
no warning of the storm’s approach.
The day that such a storm could
strike an unsuspecting, unprepared
public is long past
fense officials now debate the effec
tiveness of early warning.
Urbanik said scientists predict
that only about a third to two-thirds
of the residents of an urban area
would evacuate when warned about
an approaching hurricane. That
might rise to 100 percent in the
smaller rural communities along the
coast, however.
But time is again a factor. Urbanik
said major escape routes such as IH
45 which runs from Galveston to
Houston might be flooded by rains
well in advance of the threatening
4-foot tides. And once the storm
surge arrives, evacuation by road-
but Civil De- wa y s is impossible, he said.
Nuclear
wastes
on the road
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Flatbed trailers carrying casks
of radioactive sludge from the
crippled Three Mile Island nu
clear plant to Richland, Wash.,
have been making their way
across the heartland of America
on Interstate 80 in recent weeks.
But it seems no one thought to
tell police, health officials or
even governors along the route
they were playing host to
radioactive materials from the
nation’s worst nuclear accident.
“They never tell us anything.
You know more than we do,”
complained Illinois State
Trooper Charles Krisik, whose
unit patrols Interstate 80.
That sentiment was echoed in
nearly all of the states Interstate
80 traverses on its way west:
Ohio, Illinois, Nebraska, Wyom
ing, Utah, Idaho and Oregon.
The cross country highway
passes through or near some of
the nation’s larger cities: Cleve
land, Chicago, Des Moines,
Omaha, Cheyenne and Salt Lake
City.
In all, three shipments of low-
level radioactive waste have
been transported in steel and
lead casks on flatbed trucks to
Washington state’s Hanford Res
ervation, a government dumping
ground near Richland, the NRC
said Thursday.
The last two shipments made
their way quietly across the na
tion on 1-80 during the past two
weekends of April. The NRC
said others are planned, but no
date has been set.
“It is no different from low-
level radioactive materials that
are transported on the highways
every day,” NRC spokesman
Ken Clark said. An Ohio Energy
Department spokesman said he
was told high-radiation waste
from the March accident had not
yet been prepared for shipment.
In Ohio Thursday, state offi
cials were in an uproar over news
stories reporting that the last
radioactive shipment slipped
across the state without so much
as a passing acknowledgment to
the Highway Patrol or state
agencies.
In Oregon, a law requiring ad
vance notification of all nuclear
waste shipments is in the legisla
tive hopper.
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