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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
NATION
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2004
Frances hits Florida Panhandle
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Enid Haworth looks at the remnants of her shed upon returning home after Hurricane Frances passed through the area yesterday in Barefoot Bay, Fla. Despite some property damage, Haworth's return was a relief — her home was still intact.
Wilfredo Lee/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
ST. MARKS, Fla. — Hurricane Frances sloshed into the Florida Panhandle yesterday, taking a second swing at a storm-weary state where it already had knocked out power to 6 million people, torn up roofs and boats and been blamed for at least seven deaths.
While Panhandle residents rode out the tropical storm's heavy rain and wind blowing at a sustained 65 mph, shutters started coming down in the south and residents began returning to homes they had evacuated.
The return revealed fresh hardship as motorists waited for gasoline in queues that stretched up to five miles, and others stood in enormous lines to get water, ice and other basic supplies.
There was even a long line at a dump in Miami, where 25 cars waited to dispose of storm debris.
More than 3 million people remained without power yesterday evening.
President Bush, expected to survey the damage tomorrow, is asking Congress to approve $2 billion to help victims of hurricanes Charley and Frances.
The core of the storm, once a powerful Category 4 hurricane before it slowed somewhat, slammed into the state's Atlantic
coast early Sunday. After crossing the state and a corner of the Gulf of Mexico, it made its second Florida landfall at St. Marks, 20 miles south of Tallahassee, early yesterday afternoon.
In Tampa, 105 residents of a retirement home were evacuated in wheelchairs with floodwaters injuries at their knobs.
The water seeped into the home from a retention pond.
Forecasters said Frances could bring up to 10 inches of rain and a 5- to 10-foot storm surge to the Panhandle. Four coastal counties ordered evacuations.
Frances was moving northnorthwest at about 11 mph, forecasters said, and bound for Georgia and Alabama.
But while Frances was heading out of Florida, residents had started keeping a wary eye on vet another storm.
Ivan, the fifth hurricane of the year, had sustained wind of near 105 mph and was centered 250 miles east-southeast of Barbados in the central Atlantic.
Forecasters weren't sure whether it would hit the United States, but Floridians are fed up after contending with Frances and Charley over the past month.
At a Florida Turnpike rest stop in West Palm Beach — one of the few places in the area with gas and power — a 5-mile line of motorists waited for fuel. "It
took a little while, but I'm glad to be here," said Greg McCourt, who waited an hour to get gas for a trip to Georgia.
Airports in Tampa, Orlando, West Palm Beach and Key West reopened.
By yesterday evening, more than 80,000 people remained in shelters, down from about 108,000 on Sunday. The largest evacuation in state history had affected 47 of Florida's 67 counties.
"I've gone through all these Florida storms without going to a shelter," 100-year-old Gladys Swezey said after Gov. Jeb Bush paid a visit. "I find this quite disturbing — to make such a todo out of a storm. In the old days, we'd just stay home and
do what we can to keep the water out."
Cruise ships arrived belatedly at the Port of Miami after staying at sea to avoid the storm and extending their passengers' voyages.
The Postal Service played catchup by delivering mail on Labor Day.
Some schools made preparation for classes after serving as shelters during the weekend.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency was prepared to distribute 1.5 million gallons of water and 1 million meals.
One risk-assessment company estimated insured losses from Frances could range from $2 billion to $10 billion.
Clinton resting after heart surgery
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK — Bill Clinton had a successful quadruple heart bypass operation yesterday to relieve severely clogged arteries that doctors said had put the former president in grave danger of a major heart attack sometime soon.
Clinton is expected to make a full recovery, but doctors said he was fortunate to have checked himself into the hospital when he did.
The heart disease they repaired was extensive, and blockage in several of Clinton's arteries was "well over 90 percent," said Dr. Craig R. Smith, the surgeon who led the operation.
Smith said Clinton could leave the hospital in four or five days. Clinton was awake but sedated about four hours after the operation ended, said Dr. Allen Schwartz, chief of cardiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia.
The four-hour surgery came three days after Clinton arrived at the hospital complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath.
In a statement, Clinton's wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, thanked the hospital staff for helping the family through a trying time.
"Bill, Chelsea and I stayed up
pretty late last night talking, playing games and just being with each other," the senator said. "These past few days have been quite an emotional roll-coaster for us."
in bypass surgery, doctors remove one or more blood vessels from elsewhere in the body — in Clinton's case, two arteries from the chest and a vein from the leg — and attach them to arteries serving the heart, detouring blood around blockages.
Schwartz said it would be possible for Clinton in the future to lead an "extraordinarily active lifestyle" — including hitting the campaign trail.
Clinton had planned to campaign for Sen. John Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president, but the recovery from surgery will take him off the stump — at least for now — with just two months left until the election.
Meanwhile, more than 45,000 get-well wishes poured in for Clinton, including tens of thousands of e-mails sent to the Web site of his presidential library.
"You are surrounded by cherished family, friends and a nation that adores you and prays for your full and complete recovery," wrote Toni Maryanna Rossi. "You'll be jogging 5 miles a day in no time."
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