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TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1981
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he Gulf of Mexico provides an
|al caldron for brewing a hurri-
e: warm water, shallow depths
east-to-west winds. The Texas
st, crowded by Sunbelt growth
so low in elevation that some
as are below sea level, makes
Jespecially vulnerable target.
Idurricane Allen, ballyhooed as
he storm of the century, may
complicated Texas’ hurri-
protection problems by
rthering complacency among
Istal residents. Allen bashed
Jough the Caribbean last Au-
it, killing more than 270 peo-
, but its impact on
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l exans was
diluted. The storm had weakened
and much of its damage was in
unpopulated areas and the loss of
life (five were killed) was minimal
by hurricane standards.
“There are people who have
read these accounts about how
Allen was not so much and fizzled
out and the next time they 11 stay
put,’’ said Bob Sheets, forecaster
at the National Hurricane Center.
“But they were just lucky it hit an
unpopulated area. It made over
100 cuts in Padre Island. In Cor
pus Christi people certainly are
underprepared for a hurricane but
if the same people were to go out
and see what happened on Padre
Island, they might see what kind
offeree there was even for an aver-
age-to-strong storm.”
The six-month hurricane season
opened last Sunday (although it
was preceded by an “off-season
tropical storm) and it no doubt will
be an expensive one. Forecasters
say coastal areas are so developed
that the next major hurricane will
do at least $1 billion in damage.
“Each year we have a hurricane
press conference and people think
we re crying wolf,’’ Sheets said.
“But you have to be prepared.
In the last month federal agen
cies, Civil Defense; leaders and
municipal and county govern
ments have been organizing their
hurricane plans —- plotting eva
cuations and working with the
media.
“We’re trying to improve our
information gathering process and
getting the information out to the
people,” said Phil Lohec, Galves
ton’s Civil Defense director. “We
had a seminar and had a TV repor
ter from Houston, talking about
the media s needs. They re in the
news gathering business and
we re in the news dissemination
business.
Willis Clark of Texas A&M s Sea
Grant College Program said seven
county extension marine agents of
the Sea Grant Marine Advisory
Service also will soon begin con
ducting regular hurricane aware
ness workshops along the coast
through Oct. 31, The sessions deal
with past storms, safe and unsafe
structures, evacuations and atti
tudes toward evacuation.
With an .average elevation of 20
feet above sea level, Galveston
presents a special problem. Un
like Corpus Christi, it has no bar
rier island to absorb the initial
blow and there is only one way out
of Galveston — Interstate 45,
which can be flooded by as little as
4 feet of water.
In a Sea Grant brochure, re
searchers Carlton Ruch and Larry
Christensen say only a quarter of
those interviewed on Galveston
Island, where 6,000 people were
killed in the 1900 hurricane, knew
of the small tidal rise needed to
block escape.
Almost a third of Galveston resi
dents polled said they believed
the entire island could be emptied
in six hours or less when a mini
mum of 12 hours seems more
realistic, the researchers said.
Hurricanes’ chain reaction of
violent weather can be far-
reaching. Heavy rains triggered
by Hurricane Carla in 1961
flooded parts of North Dakota
more than 1,200 miles away, said
Texas A&M meteorologist Walter
Henry, coauthor of “Hurricanes
on the Texas Coast,” a Sea^Grant
publication outlining the history,
effects and responses to hurri
canes.
Henry said Texans suffering
from severe flooding in the Hill
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about far-reaching weather from
Tropical Storm Amelia the hard
way, and that some Atlantic Coast
hurricanes had even proThpted
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