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sciences and meteorology departments.
Storm chasing in Texas occurs mostly in the
spring, occasionally in fall and winter, but never
in the summer, said MSSDA co-coordinator
Jason Sippel.
. With only one or two days notice, storm
. chasers gather their equipment and arrive at the
storm site a couple of hours ahead of time,
Sippel said.
“We do it just for the rush,” he said. “You
can’t make a living off storm chasing.”
Members said storm chasing has more down
sides than not making much money.
Ely said his worst experience was being
forced to choose between two storms and picked
the weaker storm.
“I made the wrong decision and missed a real
ly large tornado,” he said.
Ely said only about five to 15 people are able
to chase storms. They stay about one mile south
„ of the storms, since storms tend to move north.
“We go after really large supercell stonns that
tend to produce very large damaging hail or vio-
.1- lent tornadoes,” he said.
The chasers are equipped with radios to con-
. tact the National Weather Service with storm
updates.
Sippel said all sciences have theoretical mod
els of how things are supposed to work, but nine
times out of ten, what happens does not follow
any model.
“You learn a lot in the classroom about the
structure of storms and how they work,” he said.
“But being in the field is a humbling experience,
because a storm doesn’t always work the way
you learned it would in the classroom.”
Steiger said he chases storms to prepare for
his career as a meteorology professor, to warn
others of dangers and to have fun.
“It’s just that one time out of ten times you go
chasing that you see a beautiful rotating thunder-
storm and a tornado, and that makes all the other
misses worth it,” he said.
Steiger said he has only felt that his life was
threatened twice, both times at night. Once, a
flash of lightning enabled him to see a tornado
that was too close for comfort.
Steiger said he has chased between 40 and 50
storms since moving to Texas four years ago.
Members of the storm chasing team were in
Port O’Connor in July to witness Hurricane
Claudette crash into the Gulf Coast.
Sippel said that to become a MSSDA mem
ber, a student must complete a safety seminar and
pay dues to the A&M student chapter of the
American Meteorological Society.
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you can imagine what a mess that was,” said
Lt. Mark Langwell, CSPD public information
officer.
Mike Caruso, associate athletic director for
events and game operations, said the task force
also devised a “Go with the Blue” plan intended
to increase pedestrian use of the underground
passageway.
“The vast majority of pedestrians will not
interact with traffic, and the ones that do will
have the aid of uniformed officers,” Caruso said.
Those who park on West Campus will have a
longer walk to Kyle Field, but it will be a safer
one, he said.
The passageway officially opens next
Monday. The West Campus Parking Garage is
scheduled to open by Aug. 30, in time for the
Aggie football home opener against Arkansas
State.
The West Campus Parking Garage will offer
3,800 parking spaces.
Caruso said regular bus routes from campus
will drop passengers off in front of the University
president’s house. All ticket holders may ride for
free. Transportation Services will also offer a
shuttle service from Post Oak Mall to and from
home football games starting two hours before
kickoff.
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overturned tables.
“Women ran out of the hotel screaming, ‘Help!
Help!”’ said Supria, a construction worker. He said
rescuers used fire extinguishers to douse people
engulfed in flames.
“I thought a plane must have hit the building,”
said office worker lin, who like many Indonesians
uses a single name.
Inside a ground-floor restaurant at an adjacent
building, half-eaten pasta dishes sat on tables cov
ered in broken glass. At an abandoned Marriott
restaurant, a table held a plate of fish, salad and
corn on the cob, alongside bottles of Hunt’s
ketchup and extra hot chili sauce.
Ceiling and wall panels lay in the street outside
the hotel. The blast damaged the embassies of
Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark in the
adjacent Rajawali building, but no staffers were
injured, officials said.
“People were screaming, panicking,” said
Sodik, a witness. “I thought it was an earthquake.”
Puddles of blood and broken glass could be seen
for two blocks around the Marriott. The Indonesian
Red Cross put the death toll at 13 and said 149 peo
ple were wounded.
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parishioners have said confirming Robinson would
force them to consider breaking away from thechurcli
The Episcopal Church, with 2.3 million members,
is the U.S. branch of the 77 million-member global
Anglican Communion, which has been debating tk
role of gays for decades. A win by Robinson was
expected to build momentum for other policy changes
that would be favorable to homosexuals.
The Episcopal Church has no official rules-
either for or against — ordaining gays.
Some Episcopal parishes already allow homosexu
al clergy to serve and gays who did not reveal their
sexual orientation have served as bishops, But
Robinson is the first clergyman in the Anglican
Communion to live openly as a gay man before he was
elected.
In 1998, Anglican leaders approved a resolution
calling gay sex “incompatible with Scripture.”
Bishops who hold that view believe that allowins
Robinson to serve would be a tacit endorsement of
ordaining homosexuals.
Robinson, a 56-year-old divorced father of two, has
been living with his male partnerfor 13 years and sen-
ing as an assistant to the current New Hampshire bish
op, who is retiring. Parishioners there said they chose
Robinson simply because he was the best candidate.
Under church rules, a majority of bishops, clerg)
and lay people serving as convention delegates had to
ratify Robinson’s election.
On Sunday, the House of Deputies, a legislative
body comprised of clergy and lay people from dioce
ses nationwide, approved Robinson by a 2-to-l mar
gin; a committee endorsed him by secret ballot Frida;.
The House of Bishops voted to do the same.
The final vote had been scheduled for Monday bul
was delayed at the last minute for an investigation of
the claims against Robinson.
Bishop Gordon Scruton of Western Massachusetts,
who conducted the investigation, determined Tuesda;
that there was no need for a full-blown inquiry andtk
debate on Robinson proceeded immediately after.
Scruton said the touching incident “was in public
view and was brief’ and happened at a church meeting
where Robinson put his hand on a man’s backandara
while engaged in a conversation.
The claim of inappropriate touching was e-mailed
to Vennont Bishop Thomas Ely by David Lewis of
Manchester, Vt. A family friend said Tuesday that
Lewis never intended the allegations to go public,
Scruton said Lewis told him he did not want to file a
formal complaint.
The other concern was a pornographic link found
on a Web site of Outright, a secular outreach program
for gay and bisexual youth. Robinson helped foundthe
Concord, N.H., chapter of the group, but Scruton said
the clergyman ended his association with the organi
zation in 1998 and “was not aware that the organiza
tion has a Web site until this convention.”
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