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Show Al2 The Salt Lake Tribune UTAH/WORLD Nora Hits U.S., But Lacks Punch Rain“*«. Utahns Prepare, Watch, Nora Sending Wind Into Utah Wait for Stormin’ Nora i The remnants of Hurricane Nora are headed north toward Utah, producing downpours and gusty windstoday. Its humid winds @ Continued from A-1 inches deepin places. Theresult- ing road closings were predictBecause the city gets 3 inch: es of rain in an average year THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Thursday was a dayof waiting and watching to see how severe \ Department spokeswoman Kim berly Haas said Str quickly flooded, about 6 \ Little wind, but heavy rain still possible. could bring Nora’s rain into central ““and Southern California, Colo. Okla. Texas studiedsatellite and radar images Today washe Winds drop to below 39-mph tropicalstorm strength. atest potential flooding in dry natural runoff channels often strewnwith gravel and sand — that disappear into underground aquifers. Authorita flash flooding advisory in force until late Thursday hours after the stormhad passed No home evacuations were ordered in Yuma. In Somerton, a small town to the south. 200 peopleleft their homes for a Red Cross shelter set up in a school Few injuries were reported. At sandbag-filling sites, where Marines from the nearby Yuma Proving Ground helped residents. two volunteers slipped in the muddy grit and suffered minor sprains. Andatelevision newsre porter was blown off satellite truck, injuring her back Schools had been closed and many businesses shuttered in anticipation of more brutal weather. When it became clear that damage would beslight, many fam- ilies drove aroundtown searching for picturesquesights Some residents actually seemed to be enjoying the novelty of a tropical storm. Mark Miles, 12, a Boy Scout put to sand-shoveling duty when schools closed, wel- ° « Mexico Police Hurricane Nora would be by the time its remnants reached Utah. National Weather Service forecasters in Salt Lake City talked frequently with the Miami-based National Hurricane Center. They | (Sse west | there is little need for storm s and none havebeen built the BY MIKEGORR! could stir up heavy rain through the weekend. through so fast that homeowners didn't get pelted too hard. “A lot of kitchen floors got wet.” Fire able. Friday,September 26,1997 Thursday of Nora’s advance across Baja California and Arizona. cloudsto thicken, lower and dark- en. And they madesurethat sandbags and other emergency re- sources were available, just in ease the storm’s track required intervention before dawn today “With flooding, you never know exactly whereit’s going to strike,’ noted Washington Pacific Ocean USATODAY |Source National Hurricane Center comed the tempest for its cooling break from Yuma's 100-degree temperatures. ‘The weather should be like this every day — except for the rain,” Miles said Dennis Wilhite, 32. who works as a hospital nurse, was laying 4inch-high wooden planks across thefront of his garagein the low- lying, flood-prone Villahermosa neighborhood. He said long-time residents had been dubiousthat a hurricane would do much damage here. “The old-timersin this area say the water reaches the doors but has nevergonein.” Torrential rains are rare in Yuma, a wheat, cotton and vegetable farming center bordering the Colorado River, 180 miles southwest of Phoenix. The area is so dry that farms are irrigated from river-fed canals, not from rainfall Somefarmers,in fact, worried that Nora's rains might damage their crops and possibly drive up prices forlettuce and vegetables like broccoli and cauliflower. Farms here and in the Imperial Valley, just across the border in California, supply muchofthe nation's winter vegetables. County emergency-services director Dean Cox. “You just have to make sure you're powder is dry and you're ready to respond.” storms this summer, more moisture than I’ve seen in 27 years here,” said Glen Canyon spokes- Still, with National Weather Service meteorologist William Alder predicting 1 to 3 inches of rain in much of southern Utah — more in localized areas — concern about flash floods was high. ‘Small and large waterways will rise steadily into thefirst half of the weekend as runoff begins from this storm,” he said. “Remember, most flash-flood deaths occur in automobiles. Many roads and trails that run parallel to or across existing drainages may be damaged by flood waters.”” A flash-flood watch hasbeenis- sued through today for an area south of a line extending from Santa Clara — where streamsand predicted that most of northern rivers could rise abruptly if Nora's big band of tropical moisture picked on Washington Coun- Utahwill receive only an inch or less from the storm. Except for extreme southeast- ty. Firefighters all around were Arizona normally undergoes a July-through-September ‘‘monsoon” season. But rain comesin spotty showers and thunder- “We've got our preparations all in place. We'll see if the storm turns out to be what everybodysaid it was going to be,’ Cox storms, not in India’s universal downburst form of monsoon. pected to generate much wind, the most hazardous weather element on the reservoir. Just rain, and that is nothing new this summerat Lake Powell “We've had an awful lot of Accordingly, his office has distributed 17,000 sandbags to fire departments in the communities — Springdale. La Verkin, “Most farmerslike rain, but we don’t like rain.” said Bonnie Stuhr, whoraises alfalfa, cotton and okra 35 miles east of Yuma. “Rain alwayshurts.” of Nora's remnants was not ex- woman Char Obergh. Emergency-servicesofficials in southern Utah eyed the sky, waiting for a broad layer of high Mexico Land quickly slows storm's top winds. extraordinary precautions were being taken by Glen Canyon National Recreation Areaofficials. After all, the northeasterly march Milford to Price With the storm seemingly sliding more east than north, Alder oncallif that turnedoutto be the, case. said. To the east at Lake Powell, no ern Utah, Nora’s remnantsshould pass out of the state by later today. Saturday should be mostly dry, with temperatures statewide in the 70s, but a small system from the northwest could trigger a few showers Sunday in the Wasatch and Uinta mountains. Study Doubts Ozone’s Rate Of Depletion NEWSDAY Newdoubts wereraised Thursday about whether ozone in the stratosphereis being destroyed as rapidlyas scientists predicted. According to a research team at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., observations made byinstruments aboard the space shuttle Atlantis in 1994 in- dicate there are fewer ozone-eat- ing molecules, hydroxyl radicals, than expected in the atmosphere. If that is true, Michael Summers and his colleagues reported in Science magazine, then the rate of ozone destruction may be lower than previously calculated, and the danger of ozone loss will be smaller. Ozone is important because a thin blanket of the three-oxygen molecules prevents much of the sun’s dangerousultraviolet light from reaching Earth's surface. If more UV light leaks through, experts believe the rate of skin can- cer will escalate. According to atmospheric sci- entist Paul Crutzen, however, it is not clear that the newfindings are true. “It is too early to judge with confidence,” he wrote in a commentary. Crutzen is a leading atmospheric researcher, at the Max Plancke Institute for Chemistry, in Mainz, Germany. If the new results are true, however, Crutzen said, it would imply “the need for major revisions in our understanding of upper atmospherechemistry.” In the past 25 years, concern about thinning the ozonelayer has prompted changes such as eliminating the so-called Freon gases from spray cans. DISCOV. ER Donna Morgan “7 . On Crime? 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