The Roanoke Times from Roanoke, Virginia • 4

A4 The Roanoke Times Tuesday Octooer 19 1999 ROM Al Again kept the winds away it kept the rainfall away from the areas that had been so hard hit by loyd "or those people who had a foot of rain I don't think you can completely say we dodged a bullet But it could have been worse" Rainfall in southeastern Vir ginia ranged from about 4 inches in Wakefield to 1 2 inches in some parts of Chesapeake said Wayne Albright a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Wakefield Most rivers were ex pected to stay below flood stage he said In contrast loyd dumped from 10 to 18 inches of rain in the region he said rain was spread over a wider area At 11 pm Irene was 350 miles southwest of Cape Race Newfoundland moving east northeast at about 63 mph Heavy rain closed parts of 17 roads in Suffolk and Southampton County according to the Virginia Department of Transportation In Chesapeake firefighters helped residents stranded in their homes in the flooded Elmwood Landing subdivision water is up to every front said Zack Quidley 33 a resident of the subdivision He said he also had 4 inches of water in his garage and a foot of water in his tool shed "This is the third time this has happened' Quidley said this as bad as the last hurricane that came through" City spokesman Mark Cox said he did not know how many people were stranded Workers were still trying to clear blockages in the storm water drainage sys tem since Hurricane loyd and the water table is still high from loyd and Hurricane Dennis in August he said In Virginia Beach flooding closed parts of some streets and stranded some vehicles in high water a polit spokesman said More than 1 00 cars had Hood damage in Norfolk either because people tried to drive through high water or failed to move their parked cars to higher ground said Jim Talbot the deputy coor dinator for emergency services The heavy rain also contribut ed to numerous traffic accidents including an overturned vehicle on the Berkley Bridge in Norfolk Several injuries were reported but none was life threatening police said ranklin got from 6 to 7 inch es of rain but experienced only minor flooding on some roads city spokeswoman Nanci Drake said were very I Aft associated phess Dennis Lucas climbs a stairway that leads to nowhere Monday on North Topsail Beach NC The stairway is part of a beach access that was intact before Hurricane Irene hit Sunday Irene raced out to sea Monday but not before dumping nearly a foot of rain in parts of eastern North Carolina Drake said stayed Much of the rest of the South east coast however Barely hurricane strength Irene soaked North Carolina's soggy coastal plain Sunday with up to 1 1 inches of rain before veering out into the Atlantic without ever coming ashore The storm was blamed for one death in North Carolina a motorist whose vehicle skidded into a tree At least eight other people died as a result of Irene five of them in lorida And more than 370000 lo ridians were still without power three days after Irene drenched the state Some people were already keeping watch on the next poten tial menace: Tropical Storm Jose far away in the Atlantic Jose was more than 200 miles east of Bar bados but was strengthening and expected to become a hurricane in the next few days orecasters were uncertain of its track but said it could threaten the United States Calif seismologists upgrade strength of Saturday's temblor to magnitude 71 Quake tips off scientists to ignored fault line had wonderful surface said a geologist was exciting for ASSOCIATED PASADENA Calif An earthquake that rocked California and the Southwest has propelled the US Geological Survey to fo cus its attention on a fault line it previously had ignored The newly coined Lavic Lake fault named for a dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert through which the quake tore a gash will now become one of the most studied got a lot of information about this quake a USGS geologist Ken Hudnut said The temblor that struck at 2:46 am Saturday near the re mote desert town of Ludlow caused minor injuries during a passenger train derailment Light damage was reported elsewhere The magnitude of the quake was put at 71 Monday It had been listed as a magnitude 7 quake but the reading was up graded after a review of data said Robert Tindol spokesman for seismologists at the California In stitute of Technology The quake happened along a 25 mile long fault geologists had only partly mapped re searched and yet named tasks were low priority because of the location Other faults such as San Andreas are constantly monitored because they are located near heavily pop ulated areas going to do a lot of research along a fault that would only bother a said Lucy Jones a USGS seismologist Hudnut said the more geolo gists can learn about the physics of earthquakes the more they can do to advise planners to avoid building on active faults and keep buildings already on them safer during temblors Another thing they learned: The quake could be related to the magnitude 73 Landers quake of 1992 Preliminary analysis indi cated the quake occurred in a re gion where stress was increased by that quake clear that the faults in this area are talking to each oth Jones said The Landers quake struck in the desert June 28 1992 and was followed within hours by a 65 jolt near Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains The Landers quake killed a boy and both quakes caused 400 injuries and $100 million in damage Hudnut who Hew over the ar ea with two colleagues in a heli copter to inspect the fault said they marveled at the giant fissure that moved a dry river bed 12 feet to the side had wonderful surface he said was exciting for us Most geologists study things that happened thousands of years ago This is something that happened The quake also was the first mgjor event recorded on the Tri Net quake data system a network of 200 seismographic stations that measure quake intensity and other properties While geologists got down to business Sunday the 50 residents of Ludlow had to fix mobile homes that slipped off foundations and broken glass and broken dishes that slowed service at the only diner The small town that heralded itself as for absolutely is now known as the site of the strongest quake to hit Cali fornia since Landers in 1992 They develop dehydration fatigue malnutrition sooner than adults Children need special help when disasters strike Those under 15 represent about half of all victims of natural and man made calamities THE SEW YORK TIMES WASHINGTON Although disasters from hurricanes and earthquakes to political unrest an be devastating for anyone they can be particularly hard on children But the special health needs of these youngest victims often go unmet experts say Children for example absorb nutrition in smaller doses than adults but few relief workers rec ognize that giving them a single large meal a day as is sometimes done with adult victims is insuffi cient Children suffering from malnutrition should not be treated with many common drugs includ ing certain antibiotics and they need special instruction and su pervision in basic hygiene to keep them from getting and spreading infectious disease Now several pediatric health organizations have joined to pro duce a handbook the and a training program for relief workers who deal with refugees and victims of disasters to help deal with children in these situations Dr Karen Olness a co author of the manual and director of the Center for International Health affiliated with Case Western Re serve University in Cleveland said children under 15 represent about half of all victims of natural and man made disasters Of the 23 million refugees in the world about 1 1 million are children she said Dr Olness a pediatrician with 30 experience as a di saster and refugee volunteer pre sented the manual here last week at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics a sponsor of the project are more suscepti ble to disease and develop dehy dration malnutrition and fatigue more quickly than she said addition the psychologi cal trauma children experience impacts their overall health and may affect their personalities be haviors and learning abilities throughout The handbook whose other authors are Dr Anna Mandalakas and Dr Kristine Torjesen of Case Western is aimed at relief work ers who are not child health ex perts It covers such health issuer as sanitation health assessment infection control treatment nu trition psychological stress and vulnerability to land mines Olness also says there has been more awareness in the last decade that children particularly those separated from their fami lies need protection from adults who would subject them to sexual and emotional abuse particularly in refugee situations Dr Errol Alden deputy exec utive director of the pediatrics academy agreed must first secure the safety of children in di saster situations where the rules and structures of society break down and kids are vulnerable to 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