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Wednesday, September 5, 1979
University Daily Kansan
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Storm pummels Savannah; deaths mount
SAVANNAH GA, AK) - Hurricane David pounded this town, knocking down 70 on power lines and flooding low-lying streets before heading further into island
There were no immediate reports of injuries as one of this century's worst Atlantic storms hit the U.S. mainland for the second time in two days.
Thousands had fled their homes along the coasts of Georgia and South Carolina, although 5,000 in the storm's path had ignored an order to evacuate.
The storm gathered strength as it swept up the coast from Florida and moved ashore again after 90 mph winds and a six-foot
storm tide lashed barrier islands near the South Carolina-Georgia border.
Forecasters warned of flooding in lowlying areas because tides already were running up to 10 feet above normal before the storm surge.
But David had lost much of the power that smashed the central Florida coast and the Caribbean.
Dominican rescue teams were finding more bodies of victims of David and the death toll had exceeded 900 by yesterday, Director Proteo Justiano Palacios.
He said there was no exact count because many unidentified corpses were buried as a health measure as soon as they were found.
Polanco said at least 300 persons were known to be missing, and the loss of lives ultimately could be more than 1,000, with about 3,000 injured.
r president Antonio Guzman estimated the damage to buildings and crops at about $1 billion and called the storm that lashed the city a "very bad event." He traced wreaks in the history of the republic."
He said only substantial international aid could help revive the country, which shares the island of Haiti with Haiti.
Haiti was spotted most of David's wrist as the hurricane cut across Hispaniola and then swept north along the southeastern U.S. coast.
David earlier killed 16 persons in Puerto
Rice and Dinica in the small Caribbean island of Dominica. D damage in Puerto Rico was estimated at more than $65 million while Domína's crops were virtually wired out.
Gov. Bob Graham said he would seek federal aid for the heavily damaged areas.
The first unofficial damage estimates made in the central Florida coastal area where David hit hardest on Sunday totaled more than 600 million.
Police said damage was light but widespread in Savannah, a colonial city of 120,000 with ante-bellum houses and museums.
Savannah Mayor John Rousksis said, "We were very fortunate. The hurricane lost some strength it came inland. Water
Prof explains tomorrow's vivid lunar eclipse
By TED LICKTEIG
Staff Reporter
At about 5:30 tomorrow morning, the earth will eclipse the moon in the west-southwest sky, giving it a reddish tint that is invisible to the naked eye for about 45 minutes.
The reddish color will be the result of light being refracted through the earth's atmosphere, Stephen Shaw], professor of astronomy and physics, said yesterday.
He said that eclipse ran in 18-year cycles, with this type, a full eclipse, occurring as many as three times a year.
The moon will be noticeably shadowed from 5:32 to 6:17 a.m., with the best viewing period at 5:53 a.m. Shawl said.
He said the eclipse would be picturesque because the entire moon would pass through the darkest part of the earth's shadow.
He explained that Thursday's full eclipse would not be useful scientifically, as a solar eclipse would.
homes, businesses and hospitals, the city lost the power and water service in Hurricane Sandy. Firefighters trying to put out blazes started by sparks from downed power lines were
"Studies can be done (in a solar eclipse) on the theory of relativity and you can time it and get information on the orbit of the sun." Shawl said.
"PEOPLE WILL BE timing Thursday's
is cut off. We have some flooding . . . but other than that, even though there are inconveniences now, people are in fairly good shape.
eclipse, but there won't be any hard science learned from it."
He added that the timing of lunar eclipses had shown that the moon was moving farther away from the earth.
"When the moon gets to a certain distance, it will break up. But that won't be for billions of years," he said.
Shawl said the eclipse would last about three hours.
The moon first will enter the light part of the shadow cast by the sun behind the earth at 3:21 a.m., but this will not be detectable with the naked eye.
The easternmost part of the moon then will move through the dark part of the shadow at 4:18 a.m.
AT 5:32 A.M., the moon will be totally engulfed by the dark shadow and will appear reddish. Shaw said.
The moon will leave the dark shadow, or numbra, at 7:31 a.m. a M 6:50 a.m., however, the view of the moon will become blurred as the sun rises, he said.
The moon then will leave the light shadow,
or penumbra, at 8:29 a.m., ending the eclipse.
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"We have lost power. We're on 'emergency power," said Danny Smith, director of the Memorial Hospital in Savannah. "We have lost water. We're bringing in water from the civil defense. It's coming in on tank ceilings. I have had drinking water out."
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Meanwhile, tropical storm Frederic dumped more rain on yucca on Puerto Iloa, already saturated by Hurricane Matthew. The storm has their banks, creating more food deficiencies.
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He warned that David was still very much a threat to the state and citizens should stay in their homes and shelters overnight. He also reported that damage was reported as the storm struck.
At 9 p.m. CDT, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said the center of Hurricane David was near latitude 32.6 north, longitude 81.1 west, or about 25 miles north of Savannah. It packed winds of up to 100 miles and was moving at about 10 mph.
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The National Hurricane Center said Frederic was moving west from Puerto
tico on a course toward Hainanisola.
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Frederic, downgraded yesterday morning from a hurricane to a tropical storm with winds up to 50 mph, swept across this U.S. island and aimed for the Dominican Republic.
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Forecaster Brian Jarivern said the direction changed and the storm passed north of Hipanola, it would be out over water and might become a hurricane again.
Residents of coastal islands from Hilton St. Martin's Island were evacuated as the storm bore down, and tended mandatory evacuation orders to all islands and low-lying areas and put the islands under water.
The storm moved inland during the early evening from Savannah to the interior of Charleston. Inland residents were warned to prepare for 90 mph winds and up to 5
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