700699
Title
700699
Date
1970-06-99
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LEDGER-STAR
Monday afternoon, June 22, 1970
section B
Lines, crane downed
Area cleaning up
after 'quickie' squall
By RICHARD C. BAYER
Tidewater cleaned up today after a hit-and-run squall Sunday that swept across the area, disrupting power, playing havoc on the waterways and damaging waterfront property.
The biggest cleanup operation was at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal where wind that gusted up to 58 miles per hour blew the boom of a giant cargo crane across a container ship.
John T. Nix, executive director of the Portsmouth Port and In- dustrial Commission, said the boom fell on The Baltimore, owned by Sealand Lines, about 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the peak of the storm.
Nix said, while waiting for the boom to be raised early today, pear- ed extensive, but the ship, he added, did not appear to be badly damaged.
The Weather Bureau had am- ple warning that a squall line was moving rapidly in from the west accompanied by wild thun- derstorms.
It mounted a severe thunder- storm watch at 8:55 a.m. Sunday and shortly thereafter began issuing small craft warnings.
Despite these warnings, there were many small boats in Hamp- ton Roads and on Chesapeake Bay when the storm rolled in about 1 p.m.
The Weather Bureau at Norfolk Regional Airport said the tem- perature dropped from 95 to 73 in about an hour while heavy winds buffeted the area.
The peak of the storm, the bu- reau said, was about 1:38 p.m., but scattered thunderstorms were reported in the area as late as 3:43 p.m.
The Coast Guard received doz- ens of calls and had virtually ev- ery piece of rescue equipment in action.
There was one possible death. A man identified by the Coast Guard as Leon Hodge, 85, of Hampton was reportedly washed off a sailboat in the bay four miles north of the Thimble Shoals light.
The Coast Guard said a 40-foot boat, aircraft and the cutter Point Huron searched for Hodge several hours before suspending the search after nightfall.
About 1:30 p.m. Sunday one of the Coast Guard's own, the cutter Sebago, went aground on Wil- loughby Shoals about three quar- ters of a mile southwest of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
A Coast Guard spokesman in Portsmouth sais a hawser be- came entangled in the cutter's propeller and divers were sent over the side before Navy tugs pulled the cutter free at high tide.
The Virginia Power and Elec- tric Co. said some 10,000 Tide- water homes were without power for varying periods of time be- cause of the storm.
A power company spokesman said crews were still out today restoring service to a few homes in outlying areas.
Trouble calls began pouring in at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and most service was restored by 11 p.m., the VEPCO spokesman said.
The heavy wind realed part of the roofing from atop the Quality Courts Motel, which sits at the end of Willoughby Spit between Willoughby Bay and Chesapeake Bay.
Mrs. Mary Griffith, a desk clerk at the motel, said:
"I told my husband it looked like a tornado. There was so much noise because of the wind. You couldn't believe it."
John C. McCaw, the motel's m a n a g e r, was surveying the damage today. He said water came through the roof and dam- aged about 60 rooms on two lev- els. The motel has 120 rooms.
Firemen were able to extin- guish a gasoline storage tank fire caused by lightening in Chesa- peake. No one was injured in the fire, which burned for more than an hour.
The storm also blew out 145 feet of freshly erected cinder block in the north walls of the new Rena B. Wright school in Chesapeake.
The wall was 12 feet high and was ready to receive steel joists.
struck by lightning damaged north of
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Virginian-Pilot Photos by Dick Bushnell and Bill Randolph
Wind Victims
Children inspect what would have been a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School under construction in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake while tugs attempt to free the grounded Coast Guard cutter Sebago off Willoughby. Both were victims of Sunday's storm. Story is on Page Al.
Lightning Spa
Fireball
Seen Over
Chesapeake
By DAVE LEONARD
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer
CHESAPEAKE - L struck a 35-foot tall garage tank early Sunday fire that burned hour, fire fighters r
Witnesses said skyward in a F miles about ? ning struck a co tank near Ba streets, South Hill
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Virginian-Pilot Photos by Dick Bushnell and Bill Randolph
Wind Victims
Children inspect what would have been a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School under construction in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake while tugs attempt to free the grounded Coast Guard cutter Sebago off Willoughby. Both were victims of Sunday's storm. Story is on Page Al.
The Virginian
Monday, June 22, 1970
# Lightning Sparks Tank Fire
Fireball
Seen Over
Chesapeake
By DAVE LEONARD
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer
CHESAPEAKE - Lightning struck a 35-foot tall gasoline storage tank early Sunday causing a fire that burned more than an hour, fire fighters reported.
Witnesses said flames roared skyward in a fireball visible for miles about 2:25 a.m. when lightning struck a 30,000-barrel Texaco tank near Bank and Maulden streets, South Hill.
Acting Fire Chief D. S. Keay said the flames died suddenly about 3:36 a.m. while two huge streams of water cooled the tank. Two Navy foam trucks arrived as the flames died.
No one was hurt by the blaze. Fire fighters admitted they were concerned, especially after reports of fatalities in an oil fire in Franklin, Pa., storage area Friday and Saturday.
The lightning and fire ruptured the tank top. Fire fighters said the tank was about half full and no flaming liquid reached the ground.
Two deluge water guns, one atop an aerial ladder, continued to pour water on the tank until about 6 a.m. when Texaco officials said the tank's internal temperature was back to a normal 79 degrees.
Many residents reported seeing the fireball erupt during the lightning-punctuated storm.
Scott Sherman, occupant of a home less than 100 yards from the tank, said he saw the lightning hit.
Flames erupt from burning storage tank.
Photo by Clinton Hirdlinger
"I saw so much light," he said, "and I thought the house was on fire."
Sherman said a three-pronged bolt hit, and fire erupted from the top rear of the tank.
Sherman said he and his wife ran from the house into the rain.
Moments earlier he had closed windows as the rain began.
Acting Battalion Chief James Doughtie said the strategy used to fight the fire involved handheld lines to cool the fire as soon as the first four pumpers arrived.
Four 2 1/2-inch lines were attached to an unmanned deluge gun and fire fighters retreated to a safer distance to await foam units from Norfolk Naval Base and Air Station.
A Norfolk aerial ladder, called when Chesapeake's ladder failed to operate, projected a second large stream atop the tank from Bank Street.
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Storm Knocks Out Electricity to Some
From Page 1
of Virginia Beach, rescued two men who were floating on life cushions after their 13-foot outboard overturned near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
Billy T. Cooper, a passenger on Loziato's boat estimated the seas at 10 to 15 feet and winds at 60 to 65 m.p.h. They rode out the storm, which lasted nearly an hour, northeast of the Bridge-Tunnel's fourth island.
The Coast Guard cutters reported making numerous rescues, including a father and son in Chesapeake Bay.
Hardest hit by the storm was the Quality Courts Motel in the 1500 block of West Ocean View Avenue. The winds knocked half the roof off the 120-room motel. John C. McCaw, motel manag-
roof and furniture in the rooms at about $100,000.
Although about 30 of the rooms were occupied, he said, no one was injured. He said the motel will remain open while repairs are made to the roof.
The Weather Bureau said the storm was caused by a squall line ahead of a low-pressure area moving west to east. The high winds were not unexpected as a severe thunderstorm watch had been in effect from 8:55 a.m. and a tornado watch from 1:15 p.m. Both were lifted at 6 p.m.
Wing gusts up to 80 m.p.h. whipped Blackstone in eastern Virginia and small hail was reported near Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
The tornado watch was issued for portions of the Carolinas as well as southeast Virginia.
Scattered damage was caused by the storm as the winds felled trees and knocked limbs across power lines.
bumper to bumper in two lanes, for more than three miles from the intersection at Pleasure House Road.
Thousands of people on the beach at Sandbridge, south to the North Carolina state line, were warned of the storm by city police to clear the beaches. Lt. Carl Weast of the 1st Precinct said some paid no attention to the warnings and "wished they had," but no problems were reported.
A report that two people were aboard an airfloat being blown to sea off the beach at 53rd Street was apparently false, a spokesman for the Fire Department said. The search was called off about 30 minutes after it began.
During the peak of the storm, many small boats sought safety inside the Lynnhaven and Rudee inlets, and one sailboat that overturned was finally brought ashore at Chesapeake Beach without injury to its occupants, police said.
Power was lost for more than seven hours in scattered parts of Norfolk, said J. T. Mason, Virginia Electric Power Co.'s district superintendent.
He said that more than 10,000 homes in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake were without power during the storm.
The storm also damaged power lines throughout Suffolk and the Tri-County Area, leaving hundreds of homes without electricity for several hours.
Vepco crews were kept busy until late Sunday night clearing limbs from high-voltage lines and repairing downed lines.
In Virginia Beach, the most serious problem was a massive traffic jam on Shore Drive at Pleasure House Road and at Northampton Boulevard created by power failure in the Bayside area of the city.
At one time, westbound traffic on Shore Drive was backed up,
In the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake, a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School collapsed. Officials at the school, under construction at Park Avenue and Perry Street, were unable to estimate damage or say how much delay can be expected in completion of the building.
State Trooper E. H. Davis Jr. said an automobile on U.S. 58-460 seven miles east of Suffolk was blown off the highway and hit a tree.
The victims were identified as Mrs. Phyllis Crumble, of the 100 block of Ackiss Avenue, Virginia Beach, and her two sons, James, 5, and Darrell, 4. Mrs. Crumble and James were treated and released and Darrell was admitted to Maryview Hospital for a possible head injury.
A home on U.S. 460 north of Suffolk was heavily damaged with it was apparently struck by lightning, firemen said.
The storm also blew out 145 feet of freshly erected cinder block in the north walls of the new Rena B. Wright school in Chesapeake.
The wall was 12 feet high and was ready to receive steel joists.
The Coast Guard's own, the cutter Sebago, went aground on Willoughby Shoals about three quarters of a mile southwest of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. A Coast Guard spokesman in Portsmouth said a hawser became entangled in the cutter's
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Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake, Virginia, Monday, June 22, 1970
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Buildings and Boats Tidewater Storm Hits
How They Voted in
onoress
REPORTED
DEBATE
PASSED
REJECTED
HEARINGS
REPORTED
DEBATE
PASSED
REJECTED
BINAL ACTION
UGNED
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during the storm, and a Coast
ceived more than 65 distress calls
The 5th Coast Guard District headquarters in Possmouth re-
small boats.
hours, and capsized numerous
without electricity for several
folk, left more than 12,000 homes
off an Ocean View motel in Nor-
man apparently drowned.
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(See Storm, Page A4)
The Touche II, a 36-foot sport fishing boat owned by Al Loziato
North Carolina coasts.
A Coast Guard airplane from Elizabeth City, N.C., five cutters, and four utility boats searched the James River, Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Beach and
area. Other rescues were report- ed by private boats.
Ocean by the blow.
Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic
Cape Fear to Savannah - Small craft Southwest winds, 10-20 knots, becoming Many pleasure boats, from small outboards to luxury sport fishermen, were caught in the should exercise caution north portion.
spokesman said.
The cutter, en route to Pensa- cola from Curtis Bay, Md., was headed to a Hampton Roads an- chorage to load explosives, the
afternoon.
p.m. Three Navy tugboats were unable to free the cutter Sunday
The 255-foot former gunboat was freed at high tide about 8:30
A Coast Guard spokesman said the Sebago, a Pensacola, Fla .- based cutter, went aground at 1:30 p.m. about three-fourths of a mile southwest of Ft. Wool.
rain fell during the storm.
shortly after 2 p.m., during the peak of the storm. The Weather Bureau said about half an inch of
A high of 95 was recorded at 1 p.m. The mercury dropped to 73
off at dusk.
found when a search was called roe Beach. He had not been the sailboat Totem H. near Buck-
thunderstorm Sunday afternoon hour in the midst of a severe e
Winds gusting to 58 miles per
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By DON HUNT
Point Spit, knocked half the roof Guard spokesman said that one
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Gasoline
Tank Fire
Controlled
7/6/70
NORFOLK - A lightning
fire that consumed nearly 20
barrels of gasoline and melted
the metal walls of a storage tank
off north Hampton Boulevard
was reported under control Sunday evening by the Fire Department.
Firemen were still at the scene
at midnight.
The intense blaze started about
7:30 p.m. Saturday during a thunderstorm in which a lightning
bolt struck the 48-foot-high tank
at the district plant of the Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Only moments before the fire
started, the Humble tanker Esso
San Francisco at the plant pier
had suspended unloading operations because of the storm danger.
Several persons on the pier saw
the tank hit by the lightning. The
ship was then moved from the
pier.
Firemen battled the blaze
throughout the night and into
Sunday evening in an effort to
keep it from igniting other gasoline storage tanks nearby.
The flames lit the sky by night
and trailed a thick fog of black
smoke in a southwesterly direction Sunday afternoon.
Residents of a nearby trailer
court left their homes Saturday
night as huge fireballs leaped
from the blazing tank.
Spectators lined Hampton Boulevard, even in intermittent July
4 rain, to watch the brilliant
flames. The spectators were still
there Sunday although the intensity of the fire had abated somewhat.
No firemen were reported injured during the blaze, Murray
A. Roberts, regional operation.
Photo by Ben Pulliam
The tank blazes in a melted ruin amid other tanks filled with gasoline.
(See Fire, Page A4)
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Under Control Out
From Page 1
manager for Humble, said that the damage caused by the blaze would have to be estimated by professional assessors.
The 55,000 barrel tank (42 gallons to a barrel) contained "just under 29,000 barrels" of Esso Plus gasoline Roberts said. The tank wall melted down to 18 feet from its original 48 feet.
Firemen tried throughout the night to smother the blaze with foam, but without success. "The tremendous updraft from the heat carried the light foam up in the air," said Norfolk Fire Chief Lawrence B. Wilson.
Wilson said fire fighters got a favorable break in controlling the blaze about 10 a.m. Sunday when the wind died down and shifted to the northeast, blowing the heat and flames away from the other storage tanks.
During the darkness hours of Saturday night and Sunday morning the wind sometimes whipped the intense heat and flames sideways so that firemen had to douse one another's clothes and their equipment with water to keep them from igniting.
Norfolk sent nine engine companies, two ladder trucks, and one salvage unit to the scene and kept 150 firemen working at the blaze in five and six-hour shifts.
The Navy sent two crash trucks from the Norfolk Naval Air Station, a pumping engine from the Naval Station, two fire boats and a tug. The fireboats were later withdrawn.
The Coast Guard sent the cutters Mochican, Point Brown, and Cherokee, but later reduced the standby to just the Cherokee.
Civil Defense volunteers also aided the fight.
Red Cross volunteers and women's auxiliary of the Fire Department served food to the fire fighters. Chesapeake and Virginia Beach fire departments and the Norfolk Naval Station Fire Department sent units to stand duty in Norfolk stations left under-manned because of the fire.
senfield said with more than a trace of sorrow.
"We've had six Sundays at home and only one really good day, when our Kid's Day promotion drew 3,083. Two others were played in bad weather and three we have lost. We've drawn 82,000 people, almost 50,000 ahead of last year's pace, but with those three Sundays we'd be close to 90,000."
The game, the last of a set of three with the Red Wings, will be made up as part of a doubleheader when Rochester returns Aug. 17-20. The Tides have a makeup doubleheader with Syracuse set Tuesday night and another in August with Louisville. On the road games must be made up at Rochester (Friday as part of a twinighter) and Winnipeg.
Jesse Hudson (5-2), who was to have pitched Sunday, will now work Tuesday in the doubleheader with the league-leading Chiefs. Bill Denew (3-1) probably will work the other game because Jon.
(See Sundays, Page B9)
Gasoline Tank Fire Controlled
7/6/70
NORFOLK - A lightning fire that consumed nearly 29,000 barrels of gasoline and melted the metal walls of a storage tank off north Hampton Boulevard was reported under control Sunday evening by the Fire Department.
Firemen were still at the scene at midnight.
The intense blaze started about 7:30 p.m. Saturday during a thunderstorm in which a lightning bolt struck the 48-foot-high tank at the district plant of the Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Only moments before the fire started, the Humble tanker San Francisco at the plant pier had suspended unloading operations because of the storm danger.
Several persons on the pier saw the tank hit by the lightning. The ship was then moved from the pier.
Firemen battled the blaze throughout the night and into Sunday evening in an effort to keep it from igniting other gasoline storage tanks nearby.
The flames lit the sky by night and trailed a thick fog of black smoke in a southwesterly direction Sunday afternoon.
Residents of a nearby trailer court left their homes Saturday night as huge fireballs leaped from the blazing tank.
Spectators lined Hampton Boulevard, even in intermittent rain, to watch the brilliant flames. The spectators were still there Sunday although the intensity of the fire had abated somewhat.
No firemen were reported injured during the blaze. Murray A. Roberts, regional operations.
(See Fire, Page A4)
The tank blazes in a melted ruin amid other tanks filled with gasoline.
Photo by Ben Pulliam
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## Tides Rained Out
7/6/70
NORFOLK-Rain has claimed fore noon by Dave Rosenfield, the Tide general manager.
"It rained last night and all morning. Even with the infield covered there was no way," Rosenfield said with more than a trace of sorrow.
"We've had six Sundays at home and only one really good day, when our Kid's Day promo- tion drew 3,063. Two others were played in bad weather and three we have lost. We've drawn 82,000 people, almost 50,000 ahead of last year's pace, but with those three Sundays we'd be close to 90,000."
The game, the last of a set of three with the Red Wings, will be made up as part of a doublehead- er when Rochester returns Aug. 17-20. The Tides have a makeup doubleheader with Syracuse set Tuesday night and another in Au- gust with Louisville. On the road games must be made up at Roch- ester (Friday as part of a twi- nighter) and Winnipeg.
Jesse Hudson (5-2), who was to have pitched Sunday, will now work Tuesday in the doublehead- er with the league-leading Chiefs.
Bill Denehy (3-1) probably will work the other game because Jon
(See Sundays, Page B9)
### s Battle; Bucs Win
words sad within moments, both dagouts emptied. No ejections were made and play was re- sumed after a few minutes.
Hebner's third home run of the season, following a leadoff single by Matty Alou, was the lift for the Pirates in the four-game se- ries and 12th of the month, one more than they had in all of June.
The Pirates, who've won 10 of the last 13, added an unearned run in the first on an error by Ron Santo and Gene Alley's run- scoring single and picked up two more in the fifth on singles by Alou and Roberto Clemente.
| PITTSBURGH | CHICAGO |
|---|---|
| Hebner 3b | 5 1 1 0 | Popovich 2b | 4 0 2 2 |
| Alou cf | 5 1 1 0 | Hickman cf | 3 0 1 0 |
| Clemente rf | 4 1 1 0 | Hickman cf | 3 0 1 0 |
| Oliver 1b | 3 0 0 1 | Hickman cf | 3 0 1 0 |
| Stargell lf | 3 0 1 0 | Williams 1b | 4 0 1 0 |
| Jeter c | 3 0 0 0 | Santo 3b | 4 0 1 0 |
| Sanatulin c | 4 0 2 1 | Callison rf | 4 0 2 0 |
| Alley ss | 4 0 1 1 | Hart lf | 4 0 0 0 |
| Mazeroski 2b | 4 0 0 0 | Jimenez ss | 4 0 1 0 |
| Ellis p | 4 0 0 0 | Rudolph c | 1 0 0 0 |
| | | Jenkins c | 2 0 0 0 |
| | | Kessinger ss | 0 0 0 0 |
| | | Colborn p | 0 0 0 0 |
| | | Martin ph | 1 0 0 0 |
| Total | 36 3 9 5 | Total | 36 0 9 2 |
| PITTSBURGH | CHICAGO |
|---|---|
| Pittsburgh | 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 - 3 |
| Chicago | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 |
DP-Pittsburgh 2, LOB- Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 7. 2B-Callison, Hiatt. HR-Hebner (3). SF- B.Williams.
A.Oliver.
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis (W,8-4) | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Jenkins (L,7-10) | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Colborn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1-3:62. A:13,369. | | | | | |
## Gasoline Tank Fire Controlled
7/6/70
NORFOLK-A lightning-s fire that consumed nearly 20,0 barrels of gasoline and melt the metal walls of a storage tar off north Hampton Bouleval was reported under control Su day evening by the Fire Depa ment.
Firemen were still at the sce at midnight.
The intense blaze started abo 7:30 p.m. Saturday during a thu derstorm in which a lightnin bolt struck the 48-foot-high tan at the district plant of the Hun ble Oil & Refining Co.
Only moments before the fir started, the Humble tanker Ess San Francisco at the plant pier had suspended unloading opera tions because of the storm dar ger.
Several persons on the pier sa the tank hit by the lightning. Th ship was then moved from th pier.
Firemen battled the blaz throughout the night and int Sunday evening in an effort t keep it from igniting other gaso line storage tanks nearby.
The flames lit the sky by nigh and trailed a thick fog of blac smoke in a southwesterly direc tion Sunday afternoon.
Residents of a nearby traile court left their homes Saturda night as huge fireballs leape from the blazing tank.
Spectators lined Hampton Bou levard, even in intermittent Jul 4 rain, to watch the brillian flames. The spectators were stil there Sunday although the intens ity of the fire had abated some what.
No firemen were reported in jured during the blaze. Murray A. Roberts, regional operation
(See Fire, Page A4)
The tank blazes in a melted ruin amid other tanks filled with gasoline.
Photo by Ben Pulliam
LEDGER-STAR
Monday afternoon, June 22, 1970
section B
Lines, crane downed
Area cleaning up
after 'quickie' squall
By RICHARD C. BAYER
Tidewater cleaned up today after a hit-and-run squall Sunday that swept across the area, disrupting power, playing havoc on the waterways and damaging waterfront property.
The biggest cleanup operation was at the Portsmouth Marine Terminal where wind that gusted up to 58 miles per hour blew the boom of a giant cargo crane across a container ship.
John T. Nix, executive director of the Portsmouth Port and In- dustrial Commission, said the boom fell on The Baltimore, owned by Sealand Lines, about 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the peak of the storm.
Nix said, while waiting for the boom to be raised early today, pear- ed extensive, but the ship, he added, did not appear to be badly damaged.
The Weather Bureau had am- ple warning that a squall line was moving rapidly in from the west accompanied by wild thun- derstorms.
It mounted a severe thunder- storm watch at 8:55 a.m. Sunday and shortly thereafter began issuing small craft warnings.
Despite these warnings, there were many small boats in Hamp- ton Roads and on Chesapeake Bay when the storm rolled in about 1 p.m.
The Weather Bureau at Norfolk Regional Airport said the tem- perature dropped from 95 to 73 in about an hour while heavy winds buffeted the area.
The peak of the storm, the bu- reau said, was about 1:38 p.m., but scattered thunderstorms were reported in the area as late as 3:43 p.m.
The Coast Guard received doz- ens of calls and had virtually ev- ery piece of rescue equipment in action.
There was one possible death. A man identified by the Coast Guard as Leon Hodge, 85, of Hampton was reportedly washed off a sailboat in the bay four miles north of the Thimble Shoals light.
The Coast Guard said a 40-foot boat, aircraft and the cutter Point Huron searched for Hodge several hours before suspending the search after nightfall.
About 1:30 p.m. Sunday one of the Coast Guard's own, the cutter Sebago, went aground on Wil- loughby Shoals about three quar- ters of a mile southwest of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel.
A Coast Guard spokesman in Portsmouth sais a hawser be- came entangled in the cutter's propeller and divers were sent over the side before Navy tugs pulled the cutter free at high tide.
The Virginia Power and Elec- tric Co. said some 10,000 Tide- water homes were without power for varying periods of time be- cause of the storm.
A power company spokesman said crews were still out today restoring service to a few homes in outlying areas.
Trouble calls began pouring in at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and most service was restored by 11 p.m., the VEPCO spokesman said.
The heavy wind realed part of the roofing from atop the Quality Courts Motel, which sits at the end of Willoughby Spit between Willoughby Bay and Chesapeake Bay.
Mrs. Mary Griffith, a desk clerk at the motel, said:
"I told my husband it looked like a tornado. There was so much noise because of the wind. You couldn't believe it."
John C. McCaw, the motel's m a n a g e r, was surveying the damage today. He said water came through the roof and dam- aged about 60 rooms on two lev- els. The motel has 120 rooms.
Firemen were able to extin- guish a gasoline storage tank fire caused by lightening in Chesa- peake. No one was injured in the fire, which burned for more than an hour.
The storm also blew out 145 feet of freshly erected cinder block in the north walls of the new Rena B. Wright school in Chesapeake.
The wall was 12 feet high and was ready to receive steel joists.
struck by lightning damaged north of
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Wind Victims
Children inspect what would have been a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School under construction in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake while tugs attempt to free the grounded Coast Guard cutter Sebago off Willoughby. Both were victims of Sunday's storm. Story is on Page Al.
Lightning Spa
Fireball
Seen Over
Chesapeake
By DAVE LEONARD
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer
CHESAPEAKE - L struck a 35-foot tall garage tank early Sunday fire that burned hour, fire fighters r
Witnesses said skyward in a F miles about ? ning struck a co tank near Ba streets, South Hill
Acting Fire said the fla
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Virginian-Pilot Photos by Dick Bushnell and Bill Randolph
Wind Victims
Children inspect what would have been a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School under construction in the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake while tugs attempt to free the grounded Coast Guard cutter Sebago off Willoughby. Both were victims of Sunday's storm. Story is on Page Al.
The Virginian
Monday, June 22, 1970
# Lightning Sparks Tank Fire
Fireball
Seen Over
Chesapeake
By DAVE LEONARD
Virginian-Pilot Staff Writer
CHESAPEAKE - Lightning struck a 35-foot tall gasoline storage tank early Sunday causing a fire that burned more than an hour, fire fighters reported.
Witnesses said flames roared skyward in a fireball visible for miles about 2:25 a.m. when lightning struck a 30,000-barrel Texaco tank near Bank and Maulden streets, South Hill.
Acting Fire Chief D. S. Keay said the flames died suddenly about 3:36 a.m. while two huge streams of water cooled the tank. Two Navy foam trucks arrived as the flames died.
No one was hurt by the blaze. Fire fighters admitted they were concerned, especially after reports of fatalities in an oil fire in Franklin, Pa., storage area Friday and Saturday.
The lightning and fire ruptured the tank top. Fire fighters said the tank was about half full and no flaming liquid reached the ground.
Two deluge water guns, one atop an aerial ladder, continued to pour water on the tank until about 6 a.m. when Texaco officials said the tank's internal temperature was back to a normal 79 degrees.
Many residents reported seeing the fireball erupt during the lightning-punctuated storm.
Scott Sherman, occupant of a home less than 100 yards from the tank, said he saw the lightning hit.
Flames erupt from burning storage tank.
Photo by Clinton Hirdlinger
"I saw so much light," he said, "and I thought the house was on fire."
Sherman said a three-pronged bolt hit, and fire erupted from the top rear of the tank.
Sherman said he and his wife ran from the house into the rain.
Moments earlier he had closed windows as the rain began.
Acting Battalion Chief James Doughtie said the strategy used to fight the fire involved handheld lines to cool the fire as soon as the first four pumpers arrived.
Four 2 1/2-inch lines were attached to an unmanned deluge gun and fire fighters retreated to a safer distance to await foam units from Norfolk Naval Base and Air Station.
A Norfolk aerial ladder, called when Chesapeake's ladder failed to operate, projected a second large stream atop the tank from Bank Street.
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Storm Knocks Out Electricity to Some
From Page 1
of Virginia Beach, rescued two men who were floating on life cushions after their 13-foot outboard overturned near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel.
Billy T. Cooper, a passenger on Loziato's boat estimated the seas at 10 to 15 feet and winds at 60 to 65 m.p.h. They rode out the storm, which lasted nearly an hour, northeast of the Bridge-Tunnel's fourth island.
The Coast Guard cutters reported making numerous rescues, including a father and son in Chesapeake Bay.
Hardest hit by the storm was the Quality Courts Motel in the 1500 block of West Ocean View Avenue. The winds knocked half the roof off the 120-room motel. John C. McCaw, motel manag-
roof and furniture in the rooms at about $100,000.
Although about 30 of the rooms were occupied, he said, no one was injured. He said the motel will remain open while repairs are made to the roof.
The Weather Bureau said the storm was caused by a squall line ahead of a low-pressure area moving west to east. The high winds were not unexpected as a severe thunderstorm watch had been in effect from 8:55 a.m. and a tornado watch from 1:15 p.m. Both were lifted at 6 p.m.
Wing gusts up to 80 m.p.h. whipped Blackstone in eastern Virginia and small hail was reported near Raleigh-Durham, N.C.
The tornado watch was issued for portions of the Carolinas as well as southeast Virginia.
Scattered damage was caused by the storm as the winds felled trees and knocked limbs across power lines.
bumper to bumper in two lanes, for more than three miles from the intersection at Pleasure House Road.
Thousands of people on the beach at Sandbridge, south to the North Carolina state line, were warned of the storm by city police to clear the beaches. Lt. Carl Weast of the 1st Precinct said some paid no attention to the warnings and "wished they had," but no problems were reported.
A report that two people were aboard an airfloat being blown to sea off the beach at 53rd Street was apparently false, a spokesman for the Fire Department said. The search was called off about 30 minutes after it began.
During the peak of the storm, many small boats sought safety inside the Lynnhaven and Rudee inlets, and one sailboat that overturned was finally brought ashore at Chesapeake Beach without injury to its occupants, police said.
Power was lost for more than seven hours in scattered parts of Norfolk, said J. T. Mason, Virginia Electric Power Co.'s district superintendent.
He said that more than 10,000 homes in Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake were without power during the storm.
The storm also damaged power lines throughout Suffolk and the Tri-County Area, leaving hundreds of homes without electricity for several hours.
Vepco crews were kept busy until late Sunday night clearing limbs from high-voltage lines and repairing downed lines.
In Virginia Beach, the most serious problem was a massive traffic jam on Shore Drive at Pleasure House Road and at Northampton Boulevard created by power failure in the Bayside area of the city.
At one time, westbound traffic on Shore Drive was backed up,
In the South Norfolk section of Chesapeake, a wall of the new Rena B. Wright Elementary School collapsed. Officials at the school, under construction at Park Avenue and Perry Street, were unable to estimate damage or say how much delay can be expected in completion of the building.
State Trooper E. H. Davis Jr. said an automobile on U.S. 58-460 seven miles east of Suffolk was blown off the highway and hit a tree.
The victims were identified as Mrs. Phyllis Crumble, of the 100 block of Ackiss Avenue, Virginia Beach, and her two sons, James, 5, and Darrell, 4. Mrs. Crumble and James were treated and released and Darrell was admitted to Maryview Hospital for a possible head injury.
A home on U.S. 460 north of Suffolk was heavily damaged with it was apparently struck by lightning, firemen said.
The storm also blew out 145 feet of freshly erected cinder block in the north walls of the new Rena B. Wright school in Chesapeake.
The wall was 12 feet high and was ready to receive steel joists.
The Coast Guard's own, the cutter Sebago, went aground on Willoughby Shoals about three quarters of a mile southwest of the Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel. A Coast Guard spokesman in Portsmouth said a hawser became entangled in the cutter's
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Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach, and Chesapeake, Virginia, Monday, June 22, 1970
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Buildings and Boats Tidewater Storm Hits
How They Voted in
onoress
REPORTED
DEBATE
PASSED
REJECTED
HEARINGS
REPORTED
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PASSED
REJECTED
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during the storm, and a Coast
ceived more than 65 distress calls
The 5th Coast Guard District headquarters in Possmouth re-
small boats.
hours, and capsized numerous
without electricity for several
folk, left more than 12,000 homes
off an Ocean View motel in Nor-
man apparently drowned.
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(See Storm, Page A4)
The Touche II, a 36-foot sport fishing boat owned by Al Loziato
North Carolina coasts.
A Coast Guard airplane from Elizabeth City, N.C., five cutters, and four utility boats searched the James River, Chesapeake Bay and Virginia Beach and
area. Other rescues were report- ed by private boats.
Ocean by the blow.
Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic
Cape Fear to Savannah - Small craft Southwest winds, 10-20 knots, becoming Many pleasure boats, from small outboards to luxury sport fishermen, were caught in the should exercise caution north portion.
spokesman said.
The cutter, en route to Pensa- cola from Curtis Bay, Md., was headed to a Hampton Roads an- chorage to load explosives, the
afternoon.
p.m. Three Navy tugboats were unable to free the cutter Sunday
The 255-foot former gunboat was freed at high tide about 8:30
A Coast Guard spokesman said the Sebago, a Pensacola, Fla .- based cutter, went aground at 1:30 p.m. about three-fourths of a mile southwest of Ft. Wool.
rain fell during the storm.
shortly after 2 p.m., during the peak of the storm. The Weather Bureau said about half an inch of
A high of 95 was recorded at 1 p.m. The mercury dropped to 73
off at dusk.
found when a search was called roe Beach. He had not been the sailboat Totem H. near Buck-
thunderstorm Sunday afternoon hour in the midst of a severe e
Winds gusting to 58 miles per
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Gasoline
Tank Fire
Controlled
7/6/70
NORFOLK - A lightning
fire that consumed nearly 20
barrels of gasoline and melted
the metal walls of a storage tank
off north Hampton Boulevard
was reported under control Sunday evening by the Fire Department.
Firemen were still at the scene
at midnight.
The intense blaze started about
7:30 p.m. Saturday during a thunderstorm in which a lightning
bolt struck the 48-foot-high tank
at the district plant of the Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Only moments before the fire
started, the Humble tanker Esso
San Francisco at the plant pier
had suspended unloading operations because of the storm danger.
Several persons on the pier saw
the tank hit by the lightning. The
ship was then moved from the
pier.
Firemen battled the blaze
throughout the night and into
Sunday evening in an effort to
keep it from igniting other gasoline storage tanks nearby.
The flames lit the sky by night
and trailed a thick fog of black
smoke in a southwesterly direction Sunday afternoon.
Residents of a nearby trailer
court left their homes Saturday
night as huge fireballs leaped
from the blazing tank.
Spectators lined Hampton Boulevard, even in intermittent July
4 rain, to watch the brilliant
flames. The spectators were still
there Sunday although the intensity of the fire had abated somewhat.
No firemen were reported injured during the blaze, Murray
A. Roberts, regional operation.
Photo by Ben Pulliam
The tank blazes in a melted ruin amid other tanks filled with gasoline.
(See Fire, Page A4)
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Under Control Out
From Page 1
manager for Humble, said that the damage caused by the blaze would have to be estimated by professional assessors.
The 55,000 barrel tank (42 gallons to a barrel) contained "just under 29,000 barrels" of Esso Plus gasoline Roberts said. The tank wall melted down to 18 feet from its original 48 feet.
Firemen tried throughout the night to smother the blaze with foam, but without success. "The tremendous updraft from the heat carried the light foam up in the air," said Norfolk Fire Chief Lawrence B. Wilson.
Wilson said fire fighters got a favorable break in controlling the blaze about 10 a.m. Sunday when the wind died down and shifted to the northeast, blowing the heat and flames away from the other storage tanks.
During the darkness hours of Saturday night and Sunday morning the wind sometimes whipped the intense heat and flames sideways so that firemen had to douse one another's clothes and their equipment with water to keep them from igniting.
Norfolk sent nine engine companies, two ladder trucks, and one salvage unit to the scene and kept 150 firemen working at the blaze in five and six-hour shifts.
The Navy sent two crash trucks from the Norfolk Naval Air Station, a pumping engine from the Naval Station, two fire boats and a tug. The fireboats were later withdrawn.
The Coast Guard sent the cutters Mochican, Point Brown, and Cherokee, but later reduced the standby to just the Cherokee.
Civil Defense volunteers also aided the fight.
Red Cross volunteers and women's auxiliary of the Fire Department served food to the fire fighters. Chesapeake and Virginia Beach fire departments and the Norfolk Naval Station Fire Department sent units to stand duty in Norfolk stations left under-manned because of the fire.
senfield said with more than a trace of sorrow.
"We've had six Sundays at home and only one really good day, when our Kid's Day promotion drew 3,083. Two others were played in bad weather and three we have lost. We've drawn 82,000 people, almost 50,000 ahead of last year's pace, but with those three Sundays we'd be close to 90,000."
The game, the last of a set of three with the Red Wings, will be made up as part of a doubleheader when Rochester returns Aug. 17-20. The Tides have a makeup doubleheader with Syracuse set Tuesday night and another in August with Louisville. On the road games must be made up at Rochester (Friday as part of a twinighter) and Winnipeg.
Jesse Hudson (5-2), who was to have pitched Sunday, will now work Tuesday in the doubleheader with the league-leading Chiefs. Bill Denew (3-1) probably will work the other game because Jon.
(See Sundays, Page B9)
Gasoline Tank Fire Controlled
7/6/70
NORFOLK - A lightning fire that consumed nearly 29,000 barrels of gasoline and melted the metal walls of a storage tank off north Hampton Boulevard was reported under control Sunday evening by the Fire Department.
Firemen were still at the scene at midnight.
The intense blaze started about 7:30 p.m. Saturday during a thunderstorm in which a lightning bolt struck the 48-foot-high tank at the district plant of the Humble Oil & Refining Co.
Only moments before the fire started, the Humble tanker San Francisco at the plant pier had suspended unloading operations because of the storm danger.
Several persons on the pier saw the tank hit by the lightning. The ship was then moved from the pier.
Firemen battled the blaze throughout the night and into Sunday evening in an effort to keep it from igniting other gasoline storage tanks nearby.
The flames lit the sky by night and trailed a thick fog of black smoke in a southwesterly direction Sunday afternoon.
Residents of a nearby trailer court left their homes Saturday night as huge fireballs leaped from the blazing tank.
Spectators lined Hampton Boulevard, even in intermittent rain, to watch the brilliant flames. The spectators were still there Sunday although the intensity of the fire had abated somewhat.
No firemen were reported injured during the blaze. Murray A. Roberts, regional operations.
(See Fire, Page A4)
The tank blazes in a melted ruin amid other tanks filled with gasoline.
Photo by Ben Pulliam
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## Tides Rained Out
7/6/70
NORFOLK-Rain has claimed fore noon by Dave Rosenfield, the Tide general manager.
"It rained last night and all morning. Even with the infield covered there was no way," Rosenfield said with more than a trace of sorrow.
"We've had six Sundays at home and only one really good day, when our Kid's Day promo- tion drew 3,063. Two others were played in bad weather and three we have lost. We've drawn 82,000 people, almost 50,000 ahead of last year's pace, but with those three Sundays we'd be close to 90,000."
The game, the last of a set of three with the Red Wings, will be made up as part of a doublehead- er when Rochester returns Aug. 17-20. The Tides have a makeup doubleheader with Syracuse set Tuesday night and another in Au- gust with Louisville. On the road games must be made up at Roch- ester (Friday as part of a twi- nighter) and Winnipeg.
Jesse Hudson (5-2), who was to have pitched Sunday, will now work Tuesday in the doublehead- er with the league-leading Chiefs.
Bill Denehy (3-1) probably will work the other game because Jon
(See Sundays, Page B9)
### s Battle; Bucs Win
words sad within moments, both dagouts emptied. No ejections were made and play was re- sumed after a few minutes.
Hebner's third home run of the season, following a leadoff single by Matty Alou, was the lift for the Pirates in the four-game se- ries and 12th of the month, one more than they had in all of June.
The Pirates, who've won 10 of the last 13, added an unearned run in the first on an error by Ron Santo and Gene Alley's run- scoring single and picked up two more in the fifth on singles by Alou and Roberto Clemente.
| PITTSBURGH | CHICAGO |
|---|---|
| Hebner 3b | 5 1 1 0 | Popovich 2b | 4 0 2 2 |
| Alou cf | 5 1 1 0 | Hickman cf | 3 0 1 0 |
| Clemente rf | 4 1 1 0 | Hickman cf | 3 0 1 0 |
| Oliver 1b | 3 0 0 1 | Hickman cf | 3 0 1 0 |
| Stargell lf | 3 0 1 0 | Williams 1b | 4 0 1 0 |
| Jeter c | 3 0 0 0 | Santo 3b | 4 0 1 0 |
| Sanatulin c | 4 0 2 1 | Callison rf | 4 0 2 0 |
| Alley ss | 4 0 1 1 | Hart lf | 4 0 0 0 |
| Mazeroski 2b | 4 0 0 0 | Jimenez ss | 4 0 1 0 |
| Ellis p | 4 0 0 0 | Rudolph c | 1 0 0 0 |
| | | Jenkins c | 2 0 0 0 |
| | | Kessinger ss | 0 0 0 0 |
| | | Colborn p | 0 0 0 0 |
| | | Martin ph | 1 0 0 0 |
| Total | 36 3 9 5 | Total | 36 0 9 2 |
| PITTSBURGH | CHICAGO |
|---|---|
| Pittsburgh | 0 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 - 3 |
| Chicago | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 |
DP-Pittsburgh 2, LOB- Pittsburgh 6, Chicago 7. 2B-Callison, Hiatt. HR-Hebner (3). SF- B.Williams.
A.Oliver.
| IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellis (W,8-4) | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| Jenkins (L,7-10) | 5 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Colborn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1-3:62. A:13,369. | | | | | |
## Gasoline Tank Fire Controlled
7/6/70
NORFOLK-A lightning-s fire that consumed nearly 20,0 barrels of gasoline and melt the metal walls of a storage tar off north Hampton Bouleval was reported under control Su day evening by the Fire Depa ment.
Firemen were still at the sce at midnight.
The intense blaze started abo 7:30 p.m. Saturday during a thu derstorm in which a lightnin bolt struck the 48-foot-high tan at the district plant of the Hun ble Oil & Refining Co.
Only moments before the fir started, the Humble tanker Ess San Francisco at the plant pier had suspended unloading opera tions because of the storm dar ger.
Several persons on the pier sa the tank hit by the lightning. Th ship was then moved from th pier.
Firemen battled the blaz throughout the night and int Sunday evening in an effort t keep it from igniting other gaso line storage tanks nearby.
The flames lit the sky by nigh and trailed a thick fog of blac smoke in a southwesterly direc tion Sunday afternoon.
Residents of a nearby traile court left their homes Saturda night as huge fireballs leape from the blazing tank.
Spectators lined Hampton Bou levard, even in intermittent Jul 4 rain, to watch the brillian flames. The spectators were stil there Sunday although the intens ity of the fire had abated some what.
No firemen were reported in jured during the blaze. Murray A. Roberts, regional operation
(See Fire, Page A4)
The tank blazes in a melted ruin amid other tanks filled with gasoline.
Photo by Ben Pulliam
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