University Daily Kansan / Friday. November 1, 1991
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Storm ravages Atlantic coast
200-mile-wide tropical storm leaves at least one dead, two missing
The Associated Press
An intense, extra-tropical Atlantic storm dubbed "E.T.," built surging tides that hurred 20-foot waves into low-lying East Coast areas and caused flooding in New York defenses and beaches from Maine to Florida.
"Hurricane Bob was a pussycat compared to this one," said GilHanse Jr., an emergency worker for the Town of Babylon on New York's Long Island, referring to the Aug. 19 storm that caused more than $1 billion in damage in the Northeast.
More than 100 beach-front homes in Maine, including President Bush's vacation home at Kennebunkport, were damaged. The storm ripped a 15- to 20-foot hole in the stone pier outside the Bush house, where the president docks his speedboard "Fidelity."
A separate storm dumped heavy snow on much of the nation's midsection, from the Rockies to Texas. At least six mayors in Nebraska appealed for a postponement of Halloween trick-or-treating because of snow.
At least one death was blamed on the Atlantic storm. Two people were reported missing; a fisherman who was swept from a rocky point at Narragansett, R.I., on Tuesday night and an Air National Guardsman whose four crewmates were rescued from a raft early yesterday after their helicopter went down.
the tronics as hurricanes do.
The 200-mile-wide Atlantic storm, which has no official name, formed earlier this week off the coast of Canada and is called extra-tropical because it did not originate in
Meteorologists said it followed a southward course yesterday and appeared to be weakening as it stalled 300 miles east of Virgil's landing zone, expected to sting the mainland through today.
The destruction from towering waves and hurricane-force gusts reached a crescendo
At high tide yesterday morning, waves up to 20 feet in Boston Island, Light, a 16-foot dock in Boston Harbor.
The storm pushed rivers through inland backyards and commuter routes, punched holes in wooden seawalls and smashed others to pieces, flooded coastal towns, collapsed houses and knocked out power to thousands.
Bush plans to interrupt trip to Texas to inspect storm-wracked Maine home
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Bush will fly to his Maine vacation home on Saturday, interrupting a political trip to inspect heavy damage from storm-driven waves that battered his sea-front property.
"It's not good news," Bush said yesterday on what would be an abbreviated trip to Teguas.
Bush's home on Walker's Point was one of many that suffered severe damage when a powerful Atlantic storm swept the coast on Wednesday.
"There is extraordinary damage inside the home and to the other buildings," Bush's press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, told reporters. "There are reports of windows and walls being
caved in and a disastrous situation there with regard to their personal property."
Another White House source said the first floor of the house was virtually gutted and that water had covered the entire Bush property leaving his house sticking up like an island.
The driveway to the house was impassable, littered with boulders and debris tossed up by the powerful waves. Bush's tennis court also was covered with seaweed, rocks and branches.
Shingles were torn away from a Secret Service guard house on the property, said Lynn Kippax, a reporter for Yankee Magazine, who inspected the property from the roadway.
Bush acquired the property, worth $800,000,
in 1981 from his aunt Mary Walker.
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