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Albuquerque Journal from Albuquerque, New Mexico • Page 9

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ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL Saturday September 21. f) AS ADVERTISED ON tvB Albuquerque Raked by First Twister CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 STARVING ARTISTS GROUP EMERGENCY LIQUIDATION ART SALE ORIGINAL OIL PAINTINGS SOFA SIZE PAINTINGS FROM $19 ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OVER Fire Capt. E.J. Sanchez said no one was injured in the building and most people working there had already left for the day. While the roof was destroyed, the building was still structurally sound, Sanchez said.

Gas and electricity were shut off as a precaution. Phone lines were overloaded from people calling friends and family, and Mountain Bell requested that people restrict their "calling until after 6 p.m. The Gas Company of New Mexico reported that about 30 homes were temporarily without service in the San Mateo Boulevard and Cutler Street area. "Some really high winds uprooted a tree and with that the gas lines were torn," said Annie Olson, company spokeswoman. Repairs on the line were completed by early evening, she said.

Although Civil Defense sirens were sounded and police warned people at the State Fair to get inside, the fair was not shut down. Traffic at the airport was not interrupted. The dry climate of Albuquerque usually precludes the low-level clouds and moist, unstable air masses conducive to tornadoes, a meteorologist at the weather service said. And the mountains to the east tend to keep moist air from the Gulf of Mexico away from the city. Few tornadoes have been reported in New Mexico in the 1980s.

One was sighted over the West Mesa in August 1980, and was referred to in published reports as the first twister seen in the city this decade. In July of this year, a tornado took the roof off one building and destroyed another in Hobbs. Other buildings were damaged. In July 1981, a twister hit Carlsbad High School, taking off a cafeteria roof and wreaking havoc with other school property. No injuries were reported.

In the fall of 1974, a 2-week-old infant was killed and eight people were injured when a tornado slammed into the small Navajo community of Canoncito west of Albuquerque, destroying three mobile homes and five houses. One of the most devastating tornadoes in the state in recent memory took place in the northeastern New Mexico town of Maxwell in May 1964. One person was killed and 10 buildings were destroyed as the tornado cut a three-block-wide swath through the town of 471. Chief Yilliam Pedigo. The man suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.

Dozens of car windows in the parking lot were shattered by the strong winds. South of the mall in the Uptown Boulevard area, windows in buildings were blown out and more trees were uprooted. The roof of a three-story office building, formerly a church, at San Pedro and Cutler NE, southwest of Coronado, was torn off by the twister. Dozens of 4-by-6-inch roof beams were snapped and scattered in the parking lot and front yard of the. building.

"It peeled it right back like a tin can," said Randy Simmons, 27, of Albuquerque. INCLUDING GIANT SOFA SIZE ORIGINALS CHOOSE FROM LANDSCAPES, FLORALS, SEASCAPES, STREET SCENES, STILL LIFES, AND MORE! PLUS CLOWNS, SHIPS, ORIENTALS MOST PRICED FROM 3.00 to 25.00 THIS SUNDAY -ONLY SEPT. 22, 1985 5 HOURS ONLY 11 AM TO 4 PM Tornado Stuns Albuquerque Shoppers CONTINUED FROM PAGE A1 MARRIOTT HOTEL 1-40 AT LOUISIANA BLVD. ALBUQUERQUE evident when it struck a nearby office building at Cutler and San Pedro. Four-by-six-inch roof beams were ripped from the building and snapped in two like straws.

The beams and chunks of concrete were dumped in the parking lot, landing on some of the cars. Assorted debris covered nearly every inch of the lot. In other parts of the city, winds damaged other property. Trees were uprooted along Morningside near Fortuna. A tree smashed into a utility pole nearby.

An aluminum carport roof was crushed near Sierra and Marquette. A cinder block wall was knocked over on Washington near Marble. And everywhere there were limbs and leaves from trees. Jack Sturgeon, taking pictures of the storm as it swept near his Northeast Heights home, summed it up. "I've lived here all my life and I've never seen anything like this." storm hit.

The center was evacuated and closed because officials feared someone might be hurt if the glass still dangling from the ceiling fell. The force of the storm was so fierce that glass blown out of car windows was carried 40 or more yards into one of the mall entrances, leaving a mixture of gravel-like glass and tree limbs strewn on the wet sidewalks. But the storm's fury was most personal 1 vrvT pV3e CHECKS I watched a black cloud roll toward the west entrance of the Broadway, and the glass doors were suddenly blown wide open. "We saw it get dark. Then the winds hit," Breen said.

"We told people to get away from the windows." The gusts ripped tiles off the ceiling on the west side and shattered a window on the south entrance. VISA MWt i wi i mwuw wmmmmmmmm miii iiiiiii mi 1 1 imu mm i mi "We saw the doors blow open and stuff started moving," said sales clerk Susan Shulz. "Bottles started shaking, then falling. We BEAUTIFUL 8 PC LIVING ROOM GROUP hit the ground." Clothing, paper and perfume bottles were blown off shelves, becoming dangerous airborne missiles. But no one was struck, she said.

In the rest of the mall, the tornado destroyed several sky lights, sending jagged glass crashing to the floor two stories below. A plastic globe on a lamp post was smashed. Tree limbs and leaves were severed by falling glass. Rain dripped through the holes in the skylights as puddles collected on the floor of the nearly vacant center. Work men had roped off the area and begun to sweep up some of the glass within an hour after the CONSTRUCTION NOTICE RECONSTRUCTION OF CARLISLE BLVD.

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