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The Oakland fire & a look back at Hugo: Things to think about
FRANK COOK they should have put in a ing for them, I feel sorry for be a serious shortage of left for yens. The kids wiU ing process." will pay replacement costs. repair and rebuild. And
•S3 safe pkci,* ays Carnal them," she said. \ contractors, Allied laborers get into them, imts wUL" Inevitably, the sadden not just the value of the even property owners in
Long after the Uaad are Bunch,
Bunch and othm who . and materials. And prices Although city, sate and aage in construction will sttucture.
their 60s and 70s will be
buned and the injured 1 didn't have any pk- have either lived through, ••will latp for what little is federal authorities will mean more pressure on the Bunch points out, howev- allowed to qualify for
recover, the diwlaad resihaiK at my husband. I or been associated with, avaUable,
pledge thdr commitment to aty to do things like replace er, that fite poor and elderly yearjoans.
dents of Oakland, CaUf, will didn't have any pictures of disastei Mcfc off a Ust of "We estimate the normal reeov«y, peUHal turmoil
In addition to those prob-
bo living a mghtmaie that my duldrfei. But the older probtafts B>«t Oakland resi- replacement cost [of homesl is almost guaranteed.
lems and others, OiCane
wfll nuke life difficult far people were the ones hurt dents will have to sur- at $100 pa square foot," Lloyd Bookout, a
yean to come.
"There's going to be
notes that the WUs and can-
ttie most Lifekmg coUec- mount
says Jory DTCane, etecu- researcher with the Urban
yens of Oakiand Mils have
The lessons they art Uons were gone. Important For instance, ate Hugo, tive vice president of the Land Institute in Washing- a lot to consider in
one additional problem that
learning now an am any- papCB warn gone. Thinp the equivalent of 15 years California Insurance Agenb ton, D.C, mys dty building
may mean residents have
one who owns real estate that have been held dear worth of trash had to be Association across the baycodes
almcfet certainly will the rebuilding process"
yet to see an end to the
should take to heart. from generdtiQn to genera- hauled out of the devas- in 5m FTandsco,
be reviewed and reconsid-
destruction.
Recovering from a disastion were gone,"
tated Charleston, S,C, "But because thae wUl ered in Ught of the desttue- . — Urban Land Institute researcher
*A tot of that area
ter Is nether quids nor Bunch is pot a resident of region — carted to landfill be such a demand for pee-, tion. Citizens will complain
devoid of any vegetati
easy. There Is a lot more Oakland. As a cutter of dumps that already had pie and materials, we the city should have done
involved than just getting fact, you can't get much far- limited Ufa expectancies. «pect that cost will be bid more to prevait the catas- damaged roads and utili- are the ones most likely to
now," he says, "One of the
the Snsiianee ehedt and the- away in the Untied Environmentally sensi- up to S140 or $160 per trophe,ties,
hire more building be caught In the underin*
problems of a fire tWs hot is
rdjuflding the house. StatMthansheis. tive California already has square foot by At time
inspectors and add staff to sured 5 percent. Many of
mat the ground gets sealed
There are continuing nui- Bundi is mayor of Isle of severe landfill restrictions we're done.
•Before Ihe city allows handle the number of build- their homes, she says, prob-
about 5 or 6 inches under
sances, obstacles and irrita- PahM, 3.C, a small beach that debris from Oakland "We're telling policy- reconstruction to begin, it's ing permits-
ably have been paid off for
the surface, so water
tions. There will be pains in community of 3,000 that wUl vey likely sbetch. holders to make long-term probably going to look at its Even as those needs years, Vcg lac* or a mort-
doesn't soak into the
be neck and pains of the was flattened by Hurricane
Uvmg arrangements some- building codes — maybe increase, however, the city's gage and bank pressure to
ground,
heart.
Hugo just two years ago. Along with so much devwhere else. At least a year, say there should be no ability to pay for them will keep Insurance coverage up Those hills have to be
Teople foijet the ralue And die knows e«cUy astation and so much and maybe two years." wooden roofs or no weed diminish as it is forced to to date, many of those poli- reseeded before the winter
of the dungs they have what's in Oakland's future. enthusiasm to rebuild and Con artists, however, will on any exteriors. It might wipe some 3,000 homes off cies have likely lagged rains come. We could
around than — the thinp It's going to be madden- get on with Ufe, time wiU be in great supply, require fire breaks next to the property tax rolls. behind.
looking at serious mm
"People will descend on grasslands. It might require OTCane says preliminary On the up side, however, slides."
those neighborhoods, say- specific landscaping in «s- information indicates 95 she says the Small Business Frank Cask it • member of the Rait
Erne Iduomi Auadtfon and Ihe
Officials update Board of Realtors mg they do sheet reek or dential zones to retard fire, percent of the Oakland Administration would be National AuodaSon e! Hsal Eslmo
roofing or other kinds of "Thotfs going to be a lot homes destroyed were making 4 percent loans to EAsra. He write, hi* ml .sale col-
repair work. ThevTl ask for to consider in the rebuild* insured under policies that homeowners to help them umn tan Wathngton, D.C,
on beach replenishment program a downpayment, then
you'll never see them WAVES, CURRENTS
OCEAN OTY — Guest Department of Environ- Timothy J, Richards, has again," says Bunch,
speakers tan two govmimental Protection and been chosen as the Realtor "People need to cheds out
(continued from BD
ment agencies spoke at a Energy at Tom's River, of the Year by the New Jer- every contractor, especially the ocean bottom. Calif., tells National Geo- shown that they get real big shore. These currents some*
general membership meet- spoke to 63 members and sey Association of Realtors. the ones from out of town, The visible beach constigraphic, "Somehow mey in storms, causing a lot of times become unstable ana
ing of the Board of Realtors guests on the project He is scheduled to receive a with the city building tutes only a fraction of the extract energy from them. - water motion and erosion, " oscillate like snakes or
here on an upcoming beach Also at the meeting, plaque at the group's inspector's office." aea vely changmg nMrshore
twisting rivers.
replenishment project, Donald Swan of Ocean Gry December convention at the Nat an residents who zone, which near Duck On a calm day, fauxmgravscheduled
to begin in Janu- was installed as designated Trump Taj MahaL are rebuilding expect die extends seaward about >V waves are scarce. Barely
ary in this resort.
Realtor, Ocean Reef/French Phyllis Delisle, executive devastation to be deared 3,300 feet to a depth of peweptible to the naked
Georp F, Steinrock, life Realty. Michelle Long was seerettry, was Intaeduetd. away from their neighbor's about 26 feet, eye, they may occur a few
evde manager wltt the VS. installed at a realtor with She will replace the retiring property prompfly.
MeasuremenB made by minutes apart, ftelr small
Army Carps of Engineers Zachariae Realty.
executive officer Dorothy S, "Some property owners the crab and other instru- crests separated by a mile
out of Philadelphia, and Dolly Burst president- White, who presented to will get into disagreements menu have shown that
Bernard J. Moore, an elect, announced that the the board a framed picture with their insurance compa- large sandbars on wander
administrator with the state board's cuneuf president. of the 1920 Ocean City Seal nies," says Bunch. "Some of seaward as much as 100 feet
Estate Board.
those cases are going to end a day during storms.
A total of $90 was raised up in litigation, so what's Wild and windy condi-
This Newspaper Uses Recycled Newspmt | through donations to the left of the house is just tions also mouse the num-
board's scholarship fund. going to be boarded up and ber of potentially
destructive infragravity
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proliferate and can be 7 feet off that an infragravlty current of about 8 inches a
high, adding punch to die wave hit your area," Birke- second, which is no|£
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; TAXI'A>KKS IN THE l'ROlt)Sh;i) II1S1ORIC DISTRICT horiiontal swirls that are
, The city assumss you are in favor of aMANDATED historic district propagating along the
j unless you till them AjjO/ —
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one place, you'll pick up the
To the City Clerk of Ocean City, NJ:
crest of a swirl, the forward^
motion of a swirl as it
I am against the historic district and ordinance governing il.
moves past you, and the
next one's backward
motion. Ifg.a tremendously
strong signal of velodry,"
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Wly video images from
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tower show that the pattern
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