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by DEBBIE NELSON
Battalion Staff
Some people have called the coastal area around
Galveston Bay a disaster waiting to happen, lacking
only a hurricane to set it off. ATexasA&M University
researcher is working to change that.
Dr. Carlton Ruch of the Center for Strategic Tech
nology is busy coordinating efforts for a hurricane
evacuation plan to be ready by June 1981 that could,
if implemented correctly, save many lives in the
fast-growing Galveston Bay area.
Many researchers are contributing to the plan,
which the media will help distribute to Harris, Bra
zoria and Galveston county residents, who are histor-
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Some evacuees could have only
12 hours between first warning of
a hurricane and the beginning of
flooding on escape routes.
ically the Texans hardest hit during the yearly June-
October hurricane season.
Ruch is assembling the plan, which is based at
Texas A&M, but input comes from every level, from
the National Weather Service to the governor’s office
to city civil defense units.
Ruch said a hurricane is an emergency transcend
ing any one level of governmental authority. One
example Ruch described which would need com
munity cooperation is a possible congestion on Inter
state 45 resulting from all communities evacuating
along that route.
Therefore, Ruch said, he is working with people
on many jurisdictional levels so the plan can be
accepted by all concerned.
A Texas Transportation Institute representative
from the Galveston area has predicted some eva
cuees could have as little as 12 hours between first
warning of a hurricane and the beginning of flooding
on escape routes.
Increased hurricane-awareness and distribution of
evacuation materials will greatly aid coastal resi
dents, many of whom are new to the area and largely
ignorant of hurricane destruction.
Hurricanes, with their 75-200 mph winds, have hit
some part of the Texas coast on the average of once
every two to three years since 1900.
In the September 1900 Great Galveston Hurri
cane, 3,600 homes were levelled by storm tides and
an estimated 6,000-8,000 people died.
Ruch said 90 percent of hurricane deaths are
drowning deaths, caused by the storm surge which
always accompanies a hurricane. The surge, a large
body of seawater pushed ahead of the storm, could
flood low-lying areas with up to 19 feet of water. Ruch
said experts dispute the exact height to which a surge
in the Bay area could rise.
Ruch will be utilizing the National Weather Ser
vice’s newly-developed storm surge model. The
model will be able to predict for hurricanes
approaching the Galveston Bay area where and when
the storm surge will pass over the land and how deep
it will be.
Ruch said the National Weather Service will run
several types of storms through the storm surge mod
el. This will give researchers some idea of what to
expect when a real hurricane hits the coast, such as
when roads are expected to be blocked by floodwa-
ters.
Ruch said the highest road off Galveston Island is
probably less than six feet above mean sea level,
making escape routes very susceptible to flooding.
The system is not the answer to all prayers, but a
prediction tool, Ruch said. “Hurricanes can strike
1,000 different ways with 1,000 different results.”
Thomas Urbanik, local assistant research engineer
of the Texas Transportation Institute, will soon begin
work on a traffic analysis of the hurricane-prone area.
Using census and phone-survey data, Urbanik and
Ruch will learn approximate evacuation intentions
for various types of storms. Urbanik said he will
probably use a computer model to determine high
way demand on each escape road.
When approximate numbers of evacuees are
known, residents in the most vulnerable areas can be
advised to leave first. Also, it will be possible to
Hurricanes ha ve hit some part of
the Texas coast on the average of
once every two to three years
since 1900.
predict the placement of evacuation shelters and
critical area shelters where residents may not have
enough time to evacuate the area.
Besides an awareness of escape routes, the public
needs an awareness of different types of hurricanes
and their danger. The media have begun distribution
of information released earlier this month by Ruch
and Texas A&M psychology professor Larry Christ
ensen.
Funded by the Sea Grant College Program, the
psychological survey of Galveston residents con
cluded people need to be aware of the different
forces of hurricanes, how long it takes to evacuate the
area and specifically what to do during a hurricane
watch (first alert of possible hurricane threat) and a
hurricane warning (notice a hurricane may strike a
coastal area within 24 hours or less).
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Many Texas A&M University stu
dents who wear a uniform during the
, chool year are still in military garb
;d by ttt [,j s summ er, serving throughout the
inited States and around the world.
The Air Force, Army, Navy and
tlarine Corps officer-commissioning
irograms at Texas A&M have 266
adets at summer camps or cruises,
"heir training ranges from four to six
Ikeks.
Seventeen of 91 Naval ROTC
adets are in Marine Corps “bull-
log” training at Quantico, Va. Navy
ffieer candidates including seniors,
uniors and sophomores are aboard
ihips for cruises in the Western Paci-
koriginating at Norfolk, Va.; Hon
olulu, San Diego, Calif., and Guan
tanamo Bay, Cuba. Col. Robert Gib
son, professor of naval science, said
one cadet is training in Sweden on a
foreign exchange cruise.
Air Force cadets from Texas A&M
are scattered to Lackland Air Force
Base -at San AntoniP; ‘'Vanderibdtg'
and McClellan, Calif. , and McCon
nell, Wichita, Kan. Col. Kenneth
Durham, professor of aerospace stu
dies, said 70 cadets are divided be
tween two four-week training
phases. The first starts June 15.
The Army ROTC program at
Texas A&M has 105 cadets in train
ing, said Col. James Woodall, profes
sor of military science and comman
dant. All but two are at Fort Riley,
Kan.) for six weeks training that be-
‘ gafi Junfe' 6. T\vd are in Rfinger S chool
at Fort Benning, Ga; The Range/
training is accepted in lieu of regular
Army summer field training.
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bines with on-campus military
courses and training to lead to officer
commissions on graduation.
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nation® requires only five shots instead of 23
and is given by injection into the arm
instead of the stomach.
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viruses grown in human cell cul
tures, instead of in duck eggs as is the
present vaccine.
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ta estimated the cost of the medicine
alone will be at least $370 for the five
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United Press International
LOS ANGELES — Comedian Richard Pryor, the upper half of his
body critically burned by a cigarette lighter that exploded in his hand,
has only a 35 percent chance of surviving the third-degree burns.
The 38-year-old entertainer was in critical condition Tuesday at
Sherman Oaks Community Hospital’s burn ward, where he was
rushed by paramedics shortly after the butane lighter exploded Mon
day night.
Authorities were unable to provide details on how or why the lighter
exploded.
“Mr. Pryor sustained a serious 50 percent total body surface burn
over his hands, chest, abdomen, back and face,” said Dr. Jack Gross-
man. “He is in critical but stable condition at this time.”
Grossman said the comedian has third-degree burns over the entire
upper half of his body, adding that “only 25 to 35 percent of the people
in his age group survive burns that extensive.”
“It’s a very bad burn,” said Grossman, adding that Pryor was
conscious and talking to family members early Tuesday.
Police said Pryor’s clothing became engulfed in flames at his home
in nearby Northridge.
“A neighbor apparently heard commotion and made the call to
police,” said Sgt. H. J. DeLong.
Fire Department paramedics picked up Pryor, who was sprawled in
front of his house on Parthenia Street in the northern San Fernando
Valley. Pryor, engulfed in flames, apparently had run into the street
and collapsed.
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