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ACROSS THE COUNTRY 14A NEWS-PRESS, FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 1998 THE FORECAST Tom Chisholm's local outlook Some Michigan residents allowed to return home I 1 W0ffi if In) (01 y' ysf Siific 'V: Today Saturday Sunday Monday Tuesday Partly cloudy Partly cloudy Sunny Sunny Sunny 88 69 81 60 79" 56" 78 58 82 60 Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds: Winds 16 mph 10 mph Rain forecast: Rain forecast: Rain forecast: Rain forecast: Rain forecast: 20 30 10 10 20 jt.idft:,.arkMwaiiJ -10s -Os Os 10s 20s 30s 40s 50s 60s 70s 80s 90s 100s 110s FRONTS: Cold WarmAJk Stationary- Mm Tom Chisholm is chief meteorologist with Fox WFTX-TV. Chisholm's forecast can be seen on Fox News at 6 and 10 p.m. on cable channel 4. Tides High tides in bold face. There are one to four tides a day, depending on positions of the Earth, Moon and Sun.

Next a.m. Today et brigade building dikes, setting up channels to direct the water flow," Johnson said. Water levels reached 5 feet in some spots. They had dropped several feet by midaffernoon Thursday as pumps continued flushing out the area. Officials originally said about 60 homes were evacuated, but Johnson on Thursday put the total at 81.

No injuries were reported. But 15 homes and one business in the county sustained major damage, while 66 homes and two businesses had minor damage. Thirty to 40 people remained with friends or relatives Thursday, said Thad Taylor, public safety director for the city of Alpena. Residents who were chased away by the flood were allowed to check on their houses if the waters had receded enough. County health department officials warned people who get their water from wells to boil it if the wellheads had been sub-, merged.

Lt. Harry Partridge, a state police emergency management coordinator, viewed the affected areas from a helicopter as a first step toward adding up damage costs. The Associated Press ALPENA, Mich. Residents were allowed to inspect their homes in a flooded subdivision Thursday as water levels slowly dropped and officials began calculating damages, hoping the worst was over. "We're keeping an eye on the weather forecast, but as the hours go by our situation is improving," said Bruce Johnson, spokesman for Alpena County.

Only a few light showers fell Thursday. But a flood warning issued two days earlier by the National Weather Service remained in effect for the county, where 6 to 8 inches of rain has fallen this week. The rain and melting snow saturated the ground and sent many area streams over their banks. The subdivision was deluged overnight Tuesday after a 40-foot rail bed that had held off rising waters gave way. Gov.

John Engler declared a state of emergency Wednesday, authorizing the National Guard, state police and other agencies to assist. National Guard troops were on the scene within minutes, bringing a flatbed truck loaded with sandbags. "We had the traditional buck r-yu. Englewood Punta Gorda Boca Grande Bokeelia Pineland Matlacha Redfish Pass Captiva St. James City Edison Bridge Cape Coral Punta Rassa Point Ybel Ft.

Myers Beach Big Carlos Pass Bonita Beach Naples Marco Island Cape Romano Everglades 4 NATIONAL TEMPERATURES On the beach In the sky Today Humiture: 90" H- Gull temperature: 74 pV UV index: 10 iJLChC- Tanning index: 8 Sets 6:46 p.m. 12:45 a.m. Rises 6:16 a.m. 11:53 a.m. Sun Moon THURSDAY'S TEMPERATURES Saturday Sets Rises 7:15 a.m.

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4-6 min. Dark skin Up to 2 hrs. 75-90 min. 50-60 min. 33-40 min.

20-30 min. Sun Moon 7:46 p.m. 2:37 a.m. Florida Moon phases TdllsltflSSBB 8563 Gainesville Last First New Full it, 88766" 84767 Boating forecast From Cape Sable to Tarpon Springs TODAY AND TONIGHT: Wind to SW, 15 knots; seas 3 to 5 feet; bay, inland waters a moderate chop. (DOCDO April 3 April 11 April 19 April 26 Pensacola V.

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3 Bonita Cape Fort Myers Lehigh Fort Sanibel Springs Coral Beach Acres Myers Island High. 86" 87" i 85' 92 86" 86 Low 72" 71 72 68" 73 70 Rainfall 0.0" 0.0" 0.0" 0.0" 0.0" 0.0" Miami 84770 Key West 83776 -Qajj World Rainfall almanac Rainfall at Page Field: None as of 5 p.m. Relative humidity: 63 at 1 p.m. Highest sustained wind: 1 1 mph (SW) Lake Okeechobee: 18.32 feet Average 1.06' Total1 0.00" April cri4 -10 -6 Year to date -60 -40 -20 3" Canada HlLo Calgary 4632 Montreal 3736 Ottawa 4136 Toronto 5039 Vancouver 5239 Winnipeg 5725 Last year Ft. Myers High 85, low 59 Record lor the day High 91 set In 1975 Low 45 set in 1987 HiLoSky HiLoSky Amsterdam 5743c Mexico City 9052f Athens 6641f Moscow 4116pc Auckland 6861r Nassau 8272f Barcelona 6854c Osaka 5445c Beijing 6437c Oslo 4527c 7, 5445r Paris NA Bermuda 7266pc Rio 7770c Bogota 6846c Rome 6445f Cairo 8457c 1 San Juan 8272pc Dhahran 7564c Sapporo 4128f Hong Kong 7973f Stockholm 3416c Jerusalem 6854f Sydney 73661 Lima 8677f Tokyo 4537c 7 London 5750c Zurich 6348r '98 '97 Avg.

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Weather Local Sin; tip i u-! 1 Vl i I1' I'if- i-1 OFFICIAL: Man fears for job From Page 1A X) i is At 'aV. Al iW "All he did was tell the truth when he was asked. Nobody should have to worry about getting fired for that." Veronica Shoemaker, Fort Myers councilwoman 4 Virginia tornado kills two Wife, son die as man warns parents The Associated Press COATESVILLE, Va. With a powerful storm on the way, John Giles ran next door to warn his father-in-law. In the few minutes he was gone, a tornado destroyed his home and killed his wife and their baby boy.

Eighty yards from his father-in-law's house, Giles found only the brick foundation and front steps of what had been a new, two-story wooden home. The area was swept bare, the front steps and wrought-iron railing leading up to nothing. Piled on the lawn and blown into a thicket were a baby's dressing table, a sofa, a wheelbarrow and an armoire with clothing still inside. A tablecloth and bits of yellow insulation hung from tree limbs more than 50 feet above the ground. "This is what he saw," said Hanover County Fire Chief Mike Harman staring at the rubble where the bodies of Sheila Giles, 39, and 13-week-old Jeremiah were found.

Joe Chambers, who lives about 1,000 feet away from the Giles home, went out Thursday The Associated Press with Kremski Grady sent a memo to all city department heads instructing them not to make any comment to the media on "the issue of a possible city-operated landfill, city operated construction and recycling center and horticultural debris recycling facility, and on the adult entertainment ordinance or anything relating to those subjects." Acting City Attorney Grant Alley would be the person responsible for responding to media questions on those issues, the memo said. The investigation and witness statements stem from the complaint Williams filed Feb. 26 alleging that the mayor hit him on the neck with his hand. Williams first asked Grady for an apology after the Feb. 9 incident, and when none came, took his case to state prosecutors.

The state attorney's office filed charges March 16. Before filing charges, investigators interviewed numerous people about the incident. Those interviews became pub-1 lie record Wednesday and are also available to Grady and his attorneys. Grady's attorney John 1 Coleman has said the mayor touched Grady, but that the touching did not constitute criminal battery. He wants a jury trial in the case, which has been assigned to Charlotte County Judge Wayne Woodard.

No trial date has been set, but a procedural hearing is scheduled for April 17. information related to city issues in writing. The mayor said "that if I reduced anything to writing or made public comments about any kind of subjects that he intimated were of a confiden-' tial nature, that he would consider it insubordination and I'd be fired," Kremski testified. Specific issues included memos related to a proposed city landfill, electronic message signs, possible city purchase of the former First Union Bank building on McGregor Boulevard and city housing projects. Kremski said he thought those were public, not confidential, issues.

"To the best of your knowledge, you have complied with the Sunshine requirements?" Zellman asked Kremski, referring to Florida's open records laws. "Yeah," Kremski replied. "And in our conversation you had indicated that you were in a real quandary as to why you were being criticized for essentially complying with state statute," Zellman said. Yes, Kremski replied. He went on to say he was sure he had not violated any state or city laws or policies and didn't understand why Grady was so upset.

"That's why I called in the first place," he said to Zellman. "I figured if he had gotten a copy of my statement in the past, the first statement I TOTAL DESTRUCTION: Firefighters and rescue personnel search for occupants of a tornado-destroyed home Wednesday night near Coatesville in Hanover County, Va. A mother and her 13-week-old son were killed when their two-story house was demolished. made, that could have been what set him off. I can't figure out why this type of thing would be happening if it wasn't tied back to that." Kremski makes about $68,000 a year.

Like other city department heads, he can be hired or fired by the mayor. He told investigators he might try to get the city council to approve "some sort of employment contract for me to protect me from him." Fort Myers Councilwoman Veronica Shoemaker said Kremski had talked to her about such a contract, and she was trying to find out what could be done. "All he did was tell the truth when he was asked," Shoemaker said. "Nobody should have to worry about getting fired for that." On March 30 three days the March 27 meeting remote area near Coatesville for other potential victims. Delayed by trees blocking the narrow roads, emergency workers needed at least an hour to reach the Giles house.

In Carmel Church, five miles northeast of Coatesville, Beth Noszek was standing near the front of the cinder-block building where she lives when a terrible roar and wind came up, blowing out the windows. "It sucked me all the way down the hall past the wood stove, past the table, past everything and threw me down in the back on the sofa," she said. to assess the damage. "We had been down there a couple of weeks ago to give a gift for the baby," Chambers said. "She was a real sweet woman.

1 wish they would have put in a basement." Chambers' house lost one wall. He and his wife, Carole, stayed in their basement. "We never saw anything. All we heard was the noise," he said. "You could hear everything ripping and tearing, everything flying.

It just happened within a minute." The tornado in this Virginia town 25 miles north of Richmond was just part of vio lent weather across the Southeast Wednesday night. At least one tornado touched down in eastern North Carolina, where rain and hail flooded roads and high winds knocked down trees. Four people were injured. In Virginia, the storms left thousands of people without electricity, but power had been restored to all but about 300 customers Thursday morning, Virginia Power spokesman James Norvelle said. Telephone service was also out in some places, forcing rescue crews to comb rural roads searching the densely wooded, mvmmy imrJ nptfpw I'urn'iH- vi--)ni YOU 11 CHOICE OHLV9999 WTgnig J3ggJ3W 1 'S5 FORD TAUtlUS I i'fl $3ffli EPAmm '95 FORD MUSTANG gold package P5314A mwm Family Comfort Don't Wait! P5459 Green Going! C1047 C1C 1081 fj- ffultowuii eFumifa fif'lAeukiviiiftii, 2320 COLONIAL FT.

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