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University Daily Kansan; February 14, 1983
Weather
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when it capsized Saturday off Chincoteague Island
One of the survivors said the ship floundered when water poured into the vessel through apparently faulty forward hatches.
apparently丑恶 to warn him, a SPOKEMAN WITH the National Transportation Safety Board said the NTSB would examine whether adequate precautions were taken to enable crew members to survive after being forced to abandon ship.
bringing it to Commission.
Smith said a Coast Guard board of inquiry would convene next week in Norfolk to investigate the accident.
the three survivors were listed in satisfactory condition yesterday morning at Peninsula General Hospital. All three suffered from hypothermia.
hypopenthea
Some of the crew members apparently
managed to get into lifeboats. But most died when they plunged into the 43-degree waters with only life preservers.
AT LEAST 14 other storm-related deaths were reported in the New York.New Jersey metropolitan area.
with only life preservers.
The storm proved lethal on land as well. In New Jersey, a 9-year-old boy died when he apparently slipped on a patch of ice and was pinned under an automatic garage door during the height of the blizzard, police said yesterday.
politian area. State police said that in Killingly, Conn., a freight train flattened on a track the driver had mistaken for a snowbank.
"Most of those who died were in their 60s or 70s and had a history of heart disease," said a spokesman for the New York medical examiner. AIRPORTS CLOSED by the storm slowly pulled back into operation yesterday, but flights remained severely limited — lengthening the difficulties for the thousands stranded by the storm.
had mistaken for a dog.
At least three people were found dead in snowbound cars in West Virginia, authorities said, including a man and boy who apparently were asphyxiated when their car stalled in a snowbank.
Officials said the majority of the storm fatalities were caused by overreaction.
Mark Marchese, spokesman for the New York City Port Authority, said, "The airlines are having problems getting their planes here. They're scattered all over the eastern seaboard."
An estimated 8,000 travelers were stranded in New York City airports alone.
NEW YORK STORM saved on life — 20-month old Elisa
who, when fell into a seventh floor window in
Jersey City, N.J. The baby, clad only in a diaper, landed in a 7-foot snowdrift. The drift cushioned his fall and he was uninjured.
The National Weather Service called the storm the "worst in 40 years" for the East Coast, and it said it broke a 50-year record for snowfall to date in New York. Snow range has increased by 30 inches deepest, since records first were kept in 1869 – to 24 inches in suburban Long Beach on Long Island.
A BALTIMORE MAN died of a heart attack shoveling the near-record 22.6 inch snowfall. Two were reported dead in Virginia, where up to 32 inches of snow fell.
Glenary, W.Va., was buried under 35 inches while a record 2 feet of snow buried Harrisburg and Allentown, Pa. Another record 21 inches fell at Philadelphia and 21 inches hit Norton, Mass.
Autos in Connecticut disappeared under 12-foot drifts. Central and northern Massachusetts was swamped by 10 to 15 inches of snow, and depths in New Hampshire ranged from 8 to 18 inches.
The Northeast has not been the only region to suffer from severe storms this winter.
old timers, cattlemen and weather experts who like to recall their favorite, worst winters the sagid blast of 1982-83 was one of the worst in Southern Plains history.
SINCE THE beginning of winter, near record snows in the Texas and Oklahoma pandhales and western Kansas have stranded people in their homes, caused millions of dollars in damage to road surfaces and killed and weakened thousands of cattle.
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