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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102.NO.2
MONDAY, AUGUST 24, 1992
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Andrew to carve swath through Florida
The Associated Press
MIAMI — Hurricane Andrew 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 1960, 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.
Warnings that Andrew could be stronger than Hurricane Hugo, which left 85 people dead and $5.9 billion in
damage as it swept through the Caribbean and into the Carolinas, electrified an already tense atmosphere, and populated strip from Miami to Palm Beach.
Residents rushed to secure their homes, hammering up makeshift plywood shutters if they did not have hurricane awnings, moving boats out of the Miami River or pulling them out of the water.
Panic buying hit grocery and home-supply stores, money machines were emptied and motorists lineed up for gas and headed inland.
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Bicycle parking difficult Union renovation relocates racks
KU students wanting to park their bikes at the Kansas Union may be wondering where the bike racks are.
By Christine Laue
Kansan staff writer
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.
Some students are not happy with the way the racks are situated.
"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 placed too closely together and were not accessible because of a pine tree's
nging branches.
could have very easily just put further down on the grass," she
man-Berkich said the type of ck made the parking situation orse.
're just not very heavy-duty
acks,' she said. "It's not a real
bike to lock up your bike."
and managers of running sets of the Kansas and Burge Union;s, at theracks currently at the accommodated about 50 bikes the intended way and that the were never full. Lack of apearing space for bikes is not a m at theunion, he said.
acks are designed for the front sit between two metal bars, the bicycleist to fasten the tire rack with a lock.
*y* parking the bike that way,
*ne* could steal the bike frame
cktire, Dykeman-Berkish said.
*l* locks her bike frame to the
*a*king up three to four other
·She estimated that the bike
accommodated 12 bikes when
safely.
new racks, popular at other across campus, consist of bars that stand 30 to 32 inches d 2 feet long. Beard said. A bicycle park a bike on either side of $t$, securing the frame and one or 'res to the rack.
id not expect lack of parking to problem with the new racks that provided when renovation is leted, he said. They should modulate about 60 bikes and are here the racks that have been at ion.
versity policy states that no students may obstruct access to aug. Since signs at the handrails posted instructing people to their bikes at the temporary on, people have been using the Beard said.
set of racks, accommodating 30
will be available when stage
f Phase II is completed, proba-
dium 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 er people from locking their to the handrails at the building's kays, Beard said.
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