The Tampa Tribune from Tampa, Florida • 108

P-M 4-A THE TAMPA TRIBUNE, Monday. March 18, 1985 Tornado From Page 1A Vi Tribune photos by PHIL SHEFFIELD Marvin Kamerstander surveys the front of his Venice home which was destroyed by Sunday's tornado. He had lived there for 14 months. hi also tour the damage area. "The governor has a full schedule in Tallahassee today," Jill Chamberlain said.

Early this morning, utility crews, contractors, insurance assessors and cleanup crews were to continue "trying to rstore some normalcy" to the affected area, about 25 streets in all, said Sarasota County sheriffs CapL Earl Jacobson. Jacobson said two persons were killed and 41 were treated for injuries suffered when the tornado slashed through this city in a scythe-shaped swath, tearing off roofs and gutting dozens of stores and some 55 homes, and heavily damaging hundreds more. At least 200 persons were left homeless by the St Patrick's Day storm that also brought badly needed rain to the drought-plagued West Coast area. The tornado caused between $2 million and $3 million worth of damages, to residential property, based on a preliminary estimate, Jacobson said. He said he had no idea how much the damage to cmmercial property was.

The county apopraiser's office was expected to inspect the damage today, he said, to obtain a more definite estimate. "We're looking at a major disaster for the Sarasota County area, largest in Sarasota County's history as a matter of fact," Sheriff's Lt Bill Stokey said Sunday. Jacobson said 55 homes were destroyed and another 120 were at least 50 percent damaged. Another 100 or so homes suffered less severe damage, said Marie Sammarco, a county property appraiser. "It actually looks like a war zone, like a bomb had hit," said County Commissiner Jim Greenwald.

"It is terrible. It just hurts you to look and see the damage. Jaqub Sieniawski, 66, was apparently awakened by the hail and dull roar at 5 a.m. that gave seconds' notice of the approaching funnel. He had reached the front doorway of his cinderblock lakefront home when the storm hit, blowing in the door, apparently killing him instantly, rescue workers surmised.

His wife, Regina, who slept in a corner bedroom, miraculously survived. She was admitted to Venice Hospital for treatment, as were 10 others, hospital spokesman Charlie Richards said. Also killed was Dorothy Taravel-la, 65, of Steubenville, Ohio, who au- 1 1 ft it 'hi Si- 1 used often. Florida Power and Light Co. linemen were already replacing downed lines less than an hour after the storm hit A hundred firefighters and police officers from a dozen agencies sealed off the area and directed traffic that was backed up on U.S.

41 for a half-mile. There were no reports of looting. The storm cleared a path 75 yards wide as it hop-scotched through the densely settled subdivisions, but debris widened the swath to 150 "yards. But it actually skipped over some homes entirely before spending itself 2'2 miles inland. The tornado touched down just a quarter-mile from the Rlngling Brothers Barnum Bailey Circus, but left the world-famous circus and its animals untouched.

It caused relatively minor dam-r age at Venice Airport, just east of its landfall, ripped through a motor home dealership and began )fs assault on the department stores. Out of the same line of thunderstorms, a tornado touched down at Fort Ogden, 40 miles southeast of Venice, and one scraped the northern edge of Lake Okeechobee, 100 miles east of the city. Those twisters caused only minor damage and no injuries, officials said. Only one percent of all thunderstorm clusters ever produce the spurt of tornadoes that touched down in Venice. Fort Ogden and thorities said was asleep with her husband in their motor home, parked near the Jacaranda Shopping Plaza, which sustained heavy damage.

Dorothy Taravella's husband, Salvador, was in fair condition at Venice Hospital. Sheriff's deputies said the motor home was "completely blown apart." A Publix supermarket in the shopping center east of U.S. 41 was gutted, pieces of its roof carried a half-mile east. A coin-operated water dispenser from the store went through the wall of a home three blocks away. A mart department store and several small businesses were likewise all but destroyed.

A stack of steel I-beams destined to support a new office building was strewn about one area, twisted like licorice sticks. "It sounded like a freight train, or a jet maybe. It was real faint at first the hail woke me up and then it came right through the house," Lloyd Turner said, shaking his head and staring at what re-, mained of his home. "It's a miracle we weren't killed. Then, just a second later it seemed like, it was real quiet again." The Rev.

Bob Murphy, a terian minister, lives two doors down Peppertree Road from the Sie-niawskis. His street looked as if it had been bombed. That was where the storm inexplicably began to turn south, following the sweeping curve of the road with odd precision. Virtually every house and car window were shattered, if not by the imploding pressure of the tornado, by debris that for seconds flew everywhere with awesome force. Roofs were gone.

A light rain fell in living rooms. Uprooted trees and fallen utility poles knocked down walls the tornado itself spared. Cars were crushed. But Murphy was actually laughing in the driveway of the shell of his gutted, roofless lakefront. home.

It was from relief. "I could either laugh or cry. I'd rather laugh. The important thing is neither my wife nor I were hurt. We can build another house." Ed Scholl and his grandmother were covered with glass as their windows blew in, but neither was injured.

He was visibly shaken. Stunned. The walls of his block house bowed out from the force of the storm's vacuum cleaner-like pressure. "It's a total loss. It's not structurally sound anymore.

"It took a part of a window frame and drove it straight through my litle girl's bed. She was visiting at a friend's house or we'd have lost her. It was a miracle." Emergency rescue teams from four agencies were searching the debris for people trapped in downed homes or bodies as yet undiscovered. Stookey said it was a "miracle" more weren't killed. It was a word Debris from a swimming pool is removed by unidentified people', following.

Sunday's tornado in Venice. In the background, in', shambles, is the neighboring home. the Ruskin weather service said. "Everything has to come together just right," he said. "First some sort of boundary is set up triggering storms, then with some moisture, and vertical lifting of the atmosphere, the tornado is there." Unfortunately, the meterologist said, with a tornado like the one Sunday, there is no warning.

"This wasn't your classic severe weather scenario," Rittenberry said. "There was a moderate band of showers and a few thundershowers. It developed offshore; but we weren't aware of it until it was there." Kerrie Angeley, 13, was sleeping in a top bunk bed when the tornado blew the roof off her home. "There was a big noise. I thought I was ging to die," she said.

"Luckily the ceiling didn't collapse. It just blew off. I looked up and the ceiling wasn't there. I went into the closet, shut the door and I started screaming." The Red Cross- was treating minor injuries at a Venice community center and preparing to feed others at a high school cafeteria. About 45 persons spent the night in a nursing home set up as a shelter for the evacuees.

OkeecJiabee, David Rittenberry of 3 of economic and commercial relations and the problem of 'acid rains' were put on the agenda of the coming talks" between Reagan and Mulroney at Canada's But it said "statements madex by representatives of the Washington administration on the eve of the leave no doubt that the United States has no intention of discussing these questions in earnest." "Thus, the solution of the proti-lem of 'acid rains' will be put off again under the pretext of the need of additional research." the reDort the sulphuric and nitric acids washed out of the atmosphere 'by rain, snow and smogrand deposited as particles some environmentalists blame for threatening fauna and fish. Canadians contend nearly half the pollutant comes from the United States. Irish high spirits and Gaelic-inspired good will were evident throughout the St. Patrick's Day opening of what is being called the "Shamrock Summit," and were carefully woven Into the activities of the two men of Irish heritage. At an evening gala, the president and his wife, Nancy, joined Mulroney and his wife, Mila, on stage for a and modernizing the aging Distant Early Warning line along Canada's northern frontier.

The DEW line will be replaced with a sophisticated chain 'of radar stations designed to detect Soviet airborne intruders. The United States will bear more than half the $1.2 billion cost. In a gesture designed to help defuse the. most irritating problem hovering over the meeting, Reagan and Mulroney announced after their first half-hour face-to-face session Sunday that they had agreed to appoint two special, envoys to study acid rain. Reagan tapped his tough former transportation secretary, choir-backed rendition of "When Irish Eyes Are Smiling." Reagan's voice blended in with that of the chorus, but the silver-voiced Mulroney engaged in a bit of one-upmanship by doing a little dance step and crooning a solo to the last line of the song "Sure, they steal your heart away." Earlier, several thousand demonstrators chanted "Yankee, go home," as they marched through the streets of Old Quebec.

Authorities said six people were taken into custody when a scuffle broke out between police and some protesters just before Reagan's arrival. In Moscow, Tass said "questions Drew Lewis, while Mulroney opted for the popular William Davis, the former prime minister of Ontario. Reagan said he "couldn't be happier about getting this under way and off dead center." Mulroney, who had wanted an end to U.S. research and pressed for more action on the pollution problem, admitted, "We did not work a miracle." But Canadian officials denied that the action was just a sop, saying the high-level team amounted to a stronger commitment so far from the Reagan administration for a joint solution to the acid rain problem. Acid rain is the name given to Reagan From Page 1 A The president, after boasting of their shared Irish roots and his bright green St.

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