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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
VOL.102, NO.2
MONDAY, AUGUST 24.1992
(USPS 650-640)
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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 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.
Warnings that Andrew could be stronger than Hurricane Hugo, which left $5 people dead and $5.9 billion in
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.
Residents rushed to secure their homes, hammering up makeshift plywood shutters if they did not have hurricane awnings, moving boats out 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.
Hurricane Andrew
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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 placed too closely together and were
sible because of a pine tree's ng branches
ould have very easily just put her down on the grass," she
n-Berkich said the type of made the parking situation e.
just not very heavy-duty s," she said. "It's not a real to lock up your bike."
s are designed for the front between two metal bars, e bicyclist to fasten the tire with a lock.
arking the bike that way, could steal the bike frame re, Dykeman-Berkich said. kiss her bike frame to the ig up three to four other e estimated that the bike immodated 12 bikes when.
1. manager of building ser-
Kansas and Burge Urions,
he racks currently at the
immediated about 50 bikes
intended way and that
the never full. Lack of
adefing space for bikes is not
the Union, he said.
I expect lack of parking to in with the new racks that vided when renovation is 1, he said. They should ate about 60 bikes and are he racks that have been at
racks, popular at other cross campus, consist of that stand 30 to 32 inches et long. Beard said. A bicycle a bike on either side of during the frame and one or o the rack.
n purchased the bar racks
eople from locking their
handrails at the building's
Beard said.
ty policy states that no may obstruct access to a fence signs at the handrails ed instructing people to bikes at the temporary people have been using the td said.
1racks, accommodating 30
be available when stage
se II is completed, proba-
l 1 Oct. 1, Beard said. The
be at the southeast corner
n. Another set of racks will
be in May of 1993 at the
ar.
DD / KANSAN
Justin Knupp / KANSAN
iums continue while
its continues to move in.