University Daily Kansan / Monday, December 10, 1990
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Storm hits Europe; 7 dead in blizzard
The Associated Press
LONDON — Storms dumped heavy snow yesterday in Western Europe, knocking out services in parts of France, Spain and Switzerland. Seven people were reported dead in England and Britain in northern Ireland.
"Winter has come with a vengeance," said a spokesperson for the London Weather Center. "Conditions are going to be quite nasty."
POLice said that at least four people had died in the freezing conditions and snow that hit much of northern and central England on Saturday. The death was in North Ireland, which was beaten by gale风 winds, they said.
Snow and ice made many British roads impassable yesterday, rail services were cut and hundreds of thousands of homes were without electricity and water supplies. Helicopters rescue drivers stranded
along roadways in sub-freezing temperatures.
In central France, the first winter snow cut electricity and made driving hazardous. High winds and rain swept the Cote d'Azur and the Mediterranean island of Corsica, officials said.
The London Weather Center spokesperson said the cold front that had dumped snow on France was moving across Belgium and heading for southeast England, bringing it more from the Arctic and more snow.
Snow in Tessin state in southern Switzerland closed Lugano airport and disrupted rail traffic, local officials said.
The British army was called out late Saturday to help utility workers repair power lines.
Heavy snowwalls in northern Spain forced traffic officials to close dozens of mountain passes.
Shuttle plumbing fixed; rain may shorten flight
The Associated Press
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Columbia's astronauts drained enough fluid from the shuttle's clogged plumbing yesterday to avoid an early return, but forecasts for bad weather are promising and he warned to shorten the mission anyway.
Columbia's waste water outline clogged when the crew tried unsuccessfully to dump water overboard Saturday.
NASA was going to bring Columbia back to earth today, a day ahead of schedule, if the constantly rising atmosphere is contained or the pipes unplugged.
But the astronauts reduced the amount of waste water in the storage tank to slightly more than 3 percent by filling 15 urine collection bags.
The astromauts used hoses yesterday to suck waste water from a line beneath the crew cabin floor into the sewer. The astromauts earlier in the day were unsuccessful.
That gave the crew clearance to remain in space until tomorrow, NASA said yesterday. But meteorologists were predating possible rain events and had warned Base, Calif. The rain could leave the laked runway damp for days.
Stargazing by the telescopes in Columbia's open cargo bay continued uninterrupted during the water removal. Among the many targets in the galaxy, there are numerous galaxies and a white heart star with a powerful magnetic field.
officials expected to decide sometime between midnight and midmorning today whether to bring the crew back tonight.
Flight director Al Pennington said
Scientists and engineers on Earth 218 miles below have been helping the astronauts manage Astro's three ultraviolet telescopes since an onboard computer overheated and shut down Thursday. The shuttle's only operation is operating the instruments failed the day of the launch, Dec. 2.
Before the telescope problems developed, mission planners had hoped to observe about 250 space objects. Because neither ultraviolet light nor X-rays can be seen from Earth, astronomers expect Astro to vastly improve their understanding of hot, violent stars.
Astro's ground-managed X-ray telescope revealed a jet stream of matter zooming this way from a pulsar 3 billion light years away. A pulsar is a star that emits radiation in brief, regular pulses.
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