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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.2
(USPS 650-640)
MONDAY, AUGUST 24,1992
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Andrew to carve swath through Florida
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Hurricane Anatex surged relentlessly toward southern Florida yesterday, and forecasters warned it would be the most powerful storm to hit the United States in decades. More than 1 million residents were told to flee.
The hurricane ripped into the Bahamas yesterday with 120 mph winds, heavy rain and surging tide. The outlying eastern islands of Abaco and Eleuthera were hit first. There were four reported deaths.
At 1 a.m. the center of the hurricane was about 60 miles east of Miami.
near 25.4 north latitude and 79.3 west longitude.
"It's on a dead course for South Florida. I hoped I would never experience this," said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center in suburban Coral Gables. "We've not seen anything like this in the past few decades."
Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles issued a state of emergency and activated National Guard forces as Andrew grew to a Category 4 storm, the same as Hurricane Hugo in 1989, with winds of 150 mph.
Forecasters expected it to reach Category 5—the worst category with
winds topping 155 mph — as it crossed the Gulf Stream to Florida
Only two known Category 5 hurricanes have hit the United States: Hurricane Camille, which devastated the Mississippi coast in 1969, killing 256 people, and the 1935 Labor Day hurricane that hit the Florida Keys and killed 405 people.
The governor's emergency declaration allowed the mandatory evacuation of more than 1 million people and put the National Guard and other emergency state agencies on alert.
damage as it swept through the Caribbean and into the Carolinas, electrified an already tense atmosphere in the densely populated strip from Miami to Palm Beach County.
Warnings that Andrew could be stronger than Hurricane Hugo, which left 85 people dead and 9.5 billion in
Residents rushed to secure their homes, hammering up makeshift plywood shutters if they did not have hurricane awnings, moving boats up the Miami River or pulling them out of the water.
Panic buying hit grocery and home supply stores, money machines were emptied and motorists lined up for gas and headed inland.
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August 19, 1992 THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN •An Advertising Supplement• KC 101
Bicycle parking difficult Union renovation relocates racks
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
KU students wanting to park their bikes at the Kansas Union may be wondering where the bike racks are.
Some students are not happy with the way the racks are situated.
Renovation of the building temporarily has removed one set of racks and relocated the other to the north side lawn of the Union, just off Jayhawk Boulevard.
"The way they have them here is like they stacked them to be out of the way," said Carla Dykeman-Berkich, Wellington graduate student.
She said some of the racks were
led too closely together and were accessible because of a pine tree's hanging branches.
they could have very easily just put in further down on the grass," she .
keman-Berkich said the type of rack made the parking situation worse.
T beard, manager of building ser-
sion of the Kansas and Burge Uniones,
that the racks currently at the
m accommodated about 50 bikes
the intended way and that the
s were never full. Lack of adde-
parking space for bikes is not a
elem at the Union, he said.
they're just not very heavy-duty racks," she said. "It's not a real place to lock up your bike."
e racks are designed for the front to sit between two metal bars, wing the bicyclist to fasten the tire e rack with a lock.
one could steal the bike frame back ture, Dykeman-Berkich said. he locks her bike frame to the taking up three to four otheres. She estimated that the bike is accommodated 12 bikes when safely
iversity policy states that no nets may obstruct access to a ring. Since signs at the handrails posted instructing people to their bikes at the temporary ion, people have been using the Beard said.
e new racks, popular at other
tissues across campus, consist of
1 bars that stand 30 to 32 inches
and 2 feet long. Beard said. A bicyc-
can park a bike on either side of
ar, securing the frame and one or
tires to the rack.
set of racks, accommodating 30
lbs, will be available when stage
of Phase II is completed, proba-
bility Oct. 1, Beard said. The
will be at the southeast corner
Union. Another set of racks will
available in May of 1993 at the
corner.
*Union purchased the bar racks* *ster people from locking their* *to the handrails at the building's* *ways, Beard said.*
did not expect lack of parking to problem with the new racks that be provided when renovation is pleted, he said. They should immodate about 60 bikes and are r than the racks that have been at 'nion.
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