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The Star-Democrat from Easton, Maryland • Page 2

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The Star-Democrati
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Easton, Maryland
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By LAWRENCE MESSINA Associated Press Writer WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) Doug Patterson spent part of Saturday shoveling a wall of sand along the outside of the bank where his wife works, one of a small army of people working to protect businesses from the rising Ohio River, swollen by the remnants of Hurricane Ivan. Across the street, water covered the riverfront park and amphitheater so deeply that only the very tips of light poles and trees marked its location. whole place is pretty messed up, to be honest with said Patterson, 43. As the broad area of rain that remained from Ivan streamed off through New England on the way to the North Atlantic, the National Weather Service predicted the Ohio River would crest Sunday at 46 feet, about 10 feet above flood stage and close to its record.

By early afternoon Saturday, it was already at 41.7 feet, the National Weather Service said. The river had submerged the northern tip and southern half of the Wheeling Island, which holds residential neighborhoods and Wheeling Island Racetrack and Gaming. been plucking people out of here left and firefighter David Schaffer said. are waiting until the last minute, and then they see the water come up and they get Downriver, residents were urged to evacuate parts of Moundsville, and big flood gates were closed at Parkersburg, where the river was expected to crest Sunday at five feet above flood stage. All around West Virginia, flooding and mudslides had blocked 207 roads and damaged hundreds of houses, authorities said.

Ivan and its remnants had been blamed for 45 deaths in the United States, 16 of them in Florida. The storm also was blamed for 70 deaths in the Caribbean. Utility companies said more than 1.3 million homes and businesses still had no electricity Saturday from Florida north to Pennsylvania. Upriver in western Pennsylvania, downtown Point State Park was underwater Saturday where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers join to form the Ohio. Elsewhere, streams had started to recede in hard-hit western North Carolina as others rose in New York.

Parts of northern New Jersey and eastern New York measured 5 inches of rain Saturday. Williamsport, collected 6.5 inches of rain in 24 hours and Pittsburgh got a record 5.95 inches Friday. Across the Ohio River from THESUNDAY STAR Nation Page 2A Sunday, September. 19, 2004 Main Number: 410-822-1500 Dorchester Line: 410-228-5712 (Office hours 8 a.m.-5 p.m.; Monday-Friday) Direct Numbers to Voice Mail Classified Ad Manager410-770-4054 Lisa Spears Marketing Director410-770-4040 David Fike Customer Service Director410-770--4066 Michael Hiebel Assistant410-770--4033 Sandy Russ Controller410-770-4020 Melodie Haufe Composition Manager410-770-4079 Shirley Jackson Larry E. Effingham Customer Service Our office hours are Sunday 7:30 a.m.

to 10 a.m., Monday through Friday 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. To start a subscription: Call the Customer Service Department for Rates 410-770-4005 or email: Delivery Question? 410-770-4005 Subscribers in Talbot, Caroline, Dorchester and Queen Anne's Counties who receive a damaged copy or who do not receive a paper may call for special delivery. Calls regarding special delivery must be received by 10 a.m. Sunday through Friday.

Advertising Retail Offices: Open Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Retail 410-770-4000 Fax 410-770-4012 Classified 410-770-4000 Classified On Line: www.chesapeakeclassified.com Office hours to place a classified ad are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. Ads may be emailed 24-hours a day to CLOSED SUNDAY Community News We want to publish your community news in the Star Democrat and The Sunday Star. To get your information published in the newspaper, write it down and include time, date, and a contact person and phone number.

Send it to: Community News, P.O.Box 600, Easton MD 21601 or drop it by the offices at 29088 Airpark Drive, Easton. Our email address is and our fax number is 410-770-4019 Please submit information two weeks before your event. The Star Democrat is published Sunday through Friday. Second class postage is paid at Easton, Talbot County, MD. Advertising, editorial and circulation offices are located at 29088 Airpark Drive at the Airport Industrial Park, Easton, MD 21601.

USPS 166360. To Postmaster: Send all address corrections to: The Star Democrat, P.O. Box 600, Easton, MD 21601. Sports Editor: William Haufe 410-770-4095 News Editor: John Griep 410-770-4093 Community Editor: Betsy Walk 410-770-4110 Business Editor: Christy Kniceley Nichols 410-770-4097 Special Sections Editor: Kristine S. George 410-770-4107 Entertainment Editor: Peter Howell 410-770-4104 Financial Page Wire Editor: Jonathan Slocum 410-770-4094 Photo Desk 410-770-4114 Managing Editor: Barbara Sauers 410-770-4090 Executive Editor: Denise Riley 410-770-4088 Directory You can also reach The Star-Democrat The Sunday Star Newsroom by calling 410-770-4010 The Newsroom is OPEN Sunday through Saturday.

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West Virginia, Ivan also had caused flooding in eastern Ohio. About 1,500 residents of Belmont County were out of their homes on Saturday, and some 27,000 were without drinking water because of line breaks, said Julie Hinds, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Emergency Management Agency. After devastating parts of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, Ivan poured as much as 12 inches of rain Friday on North mountainous western tip, which was still sodden from floods a week earlier. As of Saturday morning, 119 primary and secondary roads were still impassable in western North Carolina, including a stretch of Interstate 40 spanning the North Carolina- Tennessee line, state officials said. Hurricane Karl forms in the Atlantic MIAMI (AP) Hurricane Karl formed in the central Atlantic on Saturday but posed no immediate threat to land, forecasters said.

Karl, the seventh hurricane this season, had top sustained winds near 110 mph and was expected to get stronger throughout the day, according to the National Hurricane Center in Miami. At 5 p.m. EDT Saturday, Karl was centered about 1,075 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands still closer to Africa than the Caribbean and was moving west-northwest near 13 mph. Karl comes on the heels of Tropical Storm Jeanne, which was nearing the southeastern Bahamas, and could gain strength. Karl was the 11th named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, which runs from June 1 to Nov.

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