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Storm claims 6 lives
Gilbert slams into Mexico, heads north
CAMPECHE, Mexico — Boats and seaweed littered the streets of this city in yards from the beach after Hurricane Katrina, strong storm on record, battered the Yucatan Peninsula yesterday and headed north along the Gulf of Mexi-
Six people, including two babies, died as the storm passed over the Yucatan.
The Associated Press
Along the northern Mexican gulf coast, authorities evacuated fishing villages and towns as Gilbert storms and dips into winters. Wednesday morning, when the hurricane slammed into the Caribbean resort of Cancun, winds turned.
The storm left much of Yucatan without communication, electricity or drinking water. Airports were closed and supplies were running low. Campeche's governor declared the state a disaster and appealed for relief supplies
Thousands of tourists in resort areas were stranded, many surviving on cookies and milk handed out in shelters.
In Campeche, the state capital on the peninsula's west coast, "there is no light, there is no radio, there is nothing," said Ramon Castillo, a watchman at the newspaper Novedades de Campeche.
"The whole city is flooded. Everything is dark," he said. "I've lived here all my life and I have never seen anyone like this. People are scared."
The storm lifted boats from their moorings and dropped them on Campeche streets hundreds of yards from the seashore. Much of the city was flooded and littered with uprooted trees.
A hurricane's powerful winds can cause serious damage, but the greatest risk to lives and property comes from the storm surge — a flood of water sea the storm drives onto the coast. Wind-driven waves make the high seas even worse. This diagram shows the size of the surge that hurricane Gilbert could produce at its current strength.
Storm surge: A hurricane's deadliest threat
PAUL SOUTAR, BILL PITZER and CARL VAUGHAN / Knight Ridder Graphics Network
JAMAICA
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emergency on the wrecked southern peninsula.
Seaqua said the international airport at Montego Bay had reopened after a fire in the hotel. Manley International Airport at Kingston will resume full operations soon. Three commercial airlines are out of the door of Kingston airport visitors.
"The failure of ships to repop has placed an unbearable burden on official sources to provide through centers of refuge." Seaga said.
"There is a possibility, a very real possibility, of a food) shortage, particularly of chicken," said Jean Lewis, director of public affairs for the Jamaican Information Service, who still pretty well stocked, but how long that will remain the case is another matter."
Seaaga continued a dusk-to-dawn curlew established in Kingston earlier this week to prevent looting.
A government spokesman said
there had been some looting right after the hurricane winds died down, but it appeared to be under control.
The capital's two radio stations broadcast advisories to boil water and not to touch downed telephone or power lines, and passed along personal messages to remote regions of the country.
By yesterday only 10 percent of Jamaica's telephones were back in service said Marge Hobercorner, a senior American Telephone and Telegraph.
ATKT secured a single telephone line in Jamaica Wednesday night and began relaying one-page messages from stranded U.S. citizens to friends and relatives back home.
SeaAke estimated the hurricane damage in Jamaica at $8 billion. Relief supplies began arriving early, and it is the country's half-million homeless.
GILBERT
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tained winds would "certainly increase to 130.140 miles per hour."
increase to 130, 140 per hour". Is it "increase" or "increase to"? The word "increase" is more likely.
"We can't force them to leave, but it doesn't make any sense to stay," said Mayor Bob Pinkerton Jr.
Tropical storm force winds, at least 39 mph, extended outward up to 250 miles to the north and 200 miles to the south of Gilbert's center.
The storm's first landfall earlier this week left at least 19 people dead in Jamaica, five in the Dominican Republic and six in Mexico. It also left a half-million people homeless in Jamaica and a significant damage to the Cayman Islands.
The storm barreled into the Yucatan coast at dawn Wednesday, thrashing beaches with 23-foot waves, uprooting trees, knocking out electricity and water supplies and severing telephone lines.
THE KU BOOKSTORES PRESENT:
The Fred Terry Macintosh Seminars
Fred Terry is a freelance writer for such publications as MacUser, Macworld and MacWEEK. His articles mainly deal with new product reviews. With his skills and knowledge of the Macintosh, he will lead an informal discussion to help all KU students, faculty and staff use their Macintoshes to their utmost potential.
FREE ADMISSION
Open to all KU students, faculty and staff.
DATE: Sept. 17, 1988
TOPIC: Introduction to the Macintosh; hints,
PLACE: Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
TIME: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Burge Union
864-5697
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FUTURE TOPICS:
Oct. 15 - Word processing
Nov. 12 - HyperCard
Dec. 3 - Spreadsheets
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