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Wednesday, June 25.1997
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Area hit by 1992 floods again deluged by rain
Residents built again despite risk of repeat
The Associated Press
LAKEWAY, Texas — Jim Strubar checked his wife and 2-year-old son into a motel yesterday and went back home. What he found was a family of ducks swimming down Lone Star Lane and 8 feet of water in the living room.
"We wanted to keep my son away from the water," he said.
Sturbar, 47, built his house on Lake Travis in 1992, a year after a record flood swamped the same neighborhood, called Graveyard Point because it was once a cemetery.
"I went back and checked the records, and I felt it was worth the risk building here," Strubar said. "I figured it would be another 100 years before floods would hit like they did in 1991. I was wrong."
Strubar's was among the 200 to 300 Lake Travis homes damaged from flooding spurred by weekend rains
that sent rivers spilling over their banks. Four deaths have been blamed on the flooding.
Many areas of central Texas picked up between 5 and 10 inches of rain on Sunday in a matter of hours. The rain turned quiet streams and rivers into raging rapids that flooded homes along a 100-mile stretch from just west of San Antonio to just west of Austin.
In Marble Falls, 60 miles northwest of Austin, at least 100 homes were damaged or destroyed. In Lano, 100 miles northwest of Austin, at least 30 homes were damaged by the flooding.
"Ifigured it would be another 100 years before floods would hit like they did in 1991.I was wrong."
Jim Strubar Lakewayresident
mally flows at a rate of 1,000 cubic feet per second and surged to 328,000 cubic feet per second within three hours on Sunday.
Oliver Sponberg, 81, who owns a three-bedroom house on Lake Travis that is completely submerged, said he wouldn't give up on his home.
"I'll get it cleaned out," Sponberg said. "Hell, me and my 82-year-old buddy are upset that we can't get out
Air Force: Roswell not UFOs
Alien mystery explained by test wreckage
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Air Force is sticking to its story: Those weren't alien bodies in New Mexico half a century ago. They were dummies.
Col. John Haynes, an Air Force declassification officer who presented the report at a Pentagon news conference, showed footage from the 1950s of dummies dressed
"Case closed," the Air Force insists in a 231-page report released yesterday on the so-called Roswell "incident."
in Air Force flight suits pulled aloft by enormous high-altitude balloons, then dropped to earth. The object was to devise a way for pilots or astronauts to reach earth if forced to escape at high altitudes.
The black-and-white footage is a one-of-a-kind collection of Air Force film and photos.
The majority of the dummies which had skeletons of aluminum or steel, skin of latex or plastic, cast aluminum skulls and instrument cavities in their torsos and heads landed outside military bases in eastern New Mexico, near Roswell, the Air Force report said.
But skeptics don't buy it.
"I think this (explanation) is a real stretch," said Karl Pflock, a UFO researcher in New Mexico. But Pflock says he doesn't think the Roswell incident involved alien
spacecraft.
Thus the most-lasting element of UFO lore is likely to live on.
"They've got egg on their face, and they've not done anything to remove it," said Walter Haui, who was the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field in 1947.
In this 50th anniversary year of the Roswell incident, the Air Force says the spaceship legend grew from a combination of honest misunderstandings by people unfamiliar with Air Force operations in New Mexico and deliberate distortions of actual events by publicity seekers
In 1994, the Air Force said the alleged spacecraft was foil-coated fabric and other parts of a crashed Air Force balloon that was pulling a "train" of radar reflectors and other devices.
The Air Force said it had no material — classified or declassified — about any alleged alien bodies.
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