2The Daily Tar Heel Wednesday, January 7, 1987
Costly stoirans tatter M0C. cosisttlinie
By SHARON KEBSCHULL
Staff Writer
A combination of astronomical
events and a severe storm on the
North Carolina coast left $6.5
million in damages over New Year's
Day, according to the National
Weather Service.
A rare arrangement of the moon,
sun and Earth caused unusually high
tides. The tides, coupled with the
storm, battered residences and
businesses and eroded the beach in
four counties.
Twenty-three public beach
accesses were damaged, said Tom
Dipt of the Emergency Manange
ment Bureau. In Topsail Beach, 1 14
homes had damage to their main
buildings, and 128 had damage to
their steps or decking. Water seeped
into the town hall at Carolina Beach.
Kure Beach hadthe worst erosion,
20 to 40 feet horizontally, he said.
Topsail Beach already had $3
million worth of damage from a Dec.
2 storm, he said.
"The water wouldnH have been so
high w ithout the coastal storm," said
Joe Pelissier, meteorologist with the
National Weather Service at
Raleigh-Durham Airport. "It's the
battering action of the waves from
the storm that erodes the beaches."
The waves at Wilmington reached
5.2 feet, which is higher than normal,
but only by a few inches, he said.
For example, the high tides of Dec.
1 reached 5 feet, but they were just
higher waves without the added
battering action of the storm Jan.
1, he said.
"There was sand on the streets.
and houses that had-sand washed out
from under them, so that they were
kind of waving," said Jeffrey Lut
trell, a freshman from Wilmington.
"There was lots of erosion. The main
damage happened New Year's morn
ing at 8 a.m., because that's when
high tide was."
Scott Tinsley, a sophomore from
Wilmington, said the storm damaged
the pier at his family's house in
Wrightsville Beach. "Eight boards
got pushed up and the support
beams rotted out," he said, adding
that he did not know how much it
would cost to fix the pier.
The sun's strongest pull on the
tides occurred Jan. 4, and the
strongest lunar pull was Dec. 30, said
Lee Shapiro, director of the More
head Planetarium. The sun's strong
est puil usually occurs once a year,
and the moon's occurs about once
a month. Because they rarely occur
at the same time, they normally
"cancel each other out," Shapiro
said.
Such alignments of the moon, sun
and Earth occur only about once
every Wi years, he said.
"Those three key parts came about
five days apart," Shapiro said. That
stretch of time was not enough to
keep the alignment from making the
tides stronger because they were
building up all along.
He added that the storm's effect
made the low tides higher than the
normal high tides. The alignment's
tendency would be to make the low
tides lower and the high tides higher,
he said. ,
Lugar wins vote over Helms
From Associated Pruts reports
WASHINGTON - Sen.
Richard Lugar of Indiana said he
gained a 7-0 vote of confidence
Tuesday from Republicans on the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, but Sen. Jesse Helms of
North Carolina vowed to con
tinue his campaign to become the
panel's GOP leader.
"I see it as a vote of support
for the leadership IVe given, a
vote of confidence," Lugar said.
But Helms called the vote
meaningless because it came two
hours before the 1 00th Congress
Jgws in Dricf
officially convened and before the
committee had been formally
constituted.
Soviet arrests target drugs
MOSCOW More than
4,000 people were arrested as part
of Operation Poppy 6, indicat
ing that narcotics are the latest
target of Soviet leader Mikhail
Gorbachev's war on social ills,
Pravda reported Tuesday.
Shearon Harris plant
tests reactor's reaction
'Police toeffim einffoFcning se&ttlbeltt law
By MICHAEL A. KOLB
Staff Writer
The new year rang in with a
flurry of citations for violations of
North Carolina's mandatory seat
belt law.
Although the law has been on
the books since October 1985,
officers just began to enforce it Jan.
1 with a $25 fine. Until then,
violators only received a warning.
The N.C. Highway Patrol and
all local police forces municipal,
county and campus have the
authority to issue fines for not
buckling up.
The fine is an infraction that
costs the driver neither insurance
nor driver's license points. It can
be paid through the mail or at a
local magistrate's office. The vio
lator does not have to appear
before a judge unless he wants to
dispute the citation.
During the first four days of the
new year, the N.C. Highway Patrol
issued 507 citations, Raleigh Sgt.
B.W. Oakes said. Of these, 10 were
issued on highways and interstates
in Orange and Alamance counties.
The seat belt law requires the
driver and front seat passenger of
a moving car to wear a seat belt
unless they are exempt from the
law. There are a number of these
special cases.
Exemptions are granted for
medical reasons such as severe
arthritis or a painful skin condition
if the person has a statement from
his physician with him that
explains the condition. The state
does not have any special forms for
this, and no agency has to be
notified.
Built into the law are special
exemptions for rural letter carriers
who are moving at less than 20 mph
between stops, cars that were
manufactured before seat belts
were made mandatory equipment,
and farm trucks hauling materials
for agricultural or commercial
purposes.
Chapel Hill police have given out
three citations since Jan. 1, police
spokesman Keith Lohmann said.
Oakes said he thought the law
would help convince people to
buckle up.
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By PAUL CORY
Staff Writer
A chain reaction Saturday at the
Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant
near Raleigh signaled the start of the
plant's low-power testing program.
"The reaction will continue for a
while," Mac Harris, manager of
News Services for the plant, said.
"Over the next several weeks, the
amount of power being produced
will be gradually increased."
However, he said that the plant
would not be in continous operation.
"During testing, we bring the plant
on line, run it up to a certain (power)
level, then shut it down. This
process will be repeated many times
during the testing sequence, Harris
said.
The testing process will continue
for several weeks, cumulating in
"acceptance tests," in which the plant
is run at full power for 100 hours,
then shut down. If it passes these
tests, the plant is considered ready
to go on line as a commercial power
plant, he said.
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CASH (Coalition for Alternatives to
Shearon Harris), called the low
power testing a "mistake."
"It was premature for the NRC
(Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
to give Shearon Harris a low-power
testing license before (hearing) the
allegations made by a confidential
informant about serious problems
with the plant's workmanship that
would interfere with the plant's
ability to operate and respond to an
emergency," Coleman said.
The confidential informant's alle
gations include falsification of
documents, improper inspections
and the improper substitution of
materials, including the drawing up
of blueprints to match the way the
work was done, instead of working
from the blueprints, Coleman said.
On Thursday, the NRC will hold
a hearing with the Harris plant on
the agenda. Two busloads of CASH
members will be traveling to
Washington, D.C., to participate.
Coleman said the hearing will
probably not result in a full-power
license for the Harris plant. "There
is so much that needs to be done
(in regards to Shearon Harris), even
from the NRC's often foggy view
point, that the NRC would not want
to go on," Coleman said.
He also pointed to the NRC's
recent troubles with a plant in Texas,
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accused of improperly approving
work and intimidating workers, as
evidence that the NRC will be
reluctant to license the Harris plant
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