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States Feel Wrath
Of Storm Tides
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ing heavy damage to ocean.
front property.
Reports indicated exposed
areas along an 80-mile stretch
south to Key Biscayne were
hard hit by high tides AND
ground swell action.
Beach and cabana facilities
at many plush hotels, motels
and homes were damaged and
some swimming pools were
filled with debris.
Tremendous waves were re-
ported at Palm Beach, where
beach clubs were damaged and
water swept into streets two
blocks from the ocean. Debris
was spread on streets north of
the Joseph P. Kennedy home
where President Kennedy visits.
The Kennedy home stands
back from the ocean and has a
breakwater for protection.
The Miami Weather Bureau
denied rumors that a tidal
wave hit the area and said
damage was caused by IAN
intense ocean storm located
well to the east of the Middle
Atlantic States" It brought
tides of is to 3 feet above
normal along the Florida coast.
The beach at Deerfield
Beach had been swept away
Saturday and tides today
washed away 21st avenue. Of
ficials said damage was worse
than that caused by Hurricane
Donna in 1860.
Virginia counted seven dead,
in the latest storm and the
States losses ran into the mil
lions.
Virginia Beach Mayor Frank
A. busch declared a state OF
emergency and called in Ma
tional Guard troops to guard
against reported looting.
Residents Evacuated
About 300 residents along a
wide strip of the beach area
were evacuated to Fl. Story by
Army amphibious vehicles. A
tide 10 feet above normal mean
low tide ripped up fishing piers
and sections of the boardwalk
dumping timbers on to Atlantic
avenue.
''I've been here 40 years, and
I've never seen anything worse
than this" the mayor said.
More than 1000 persons in
the Ocean View and Willough-
by sections of Norfolk had to
be evacuated. They live along
a section which prides itself as
the safe family beach,"
However, there were no re-
ports of serious injury or
deaths.
Fishermen Hard Hit
Across Hampton Roads, there
was personal tragedy for many
fishermen who saw their entire
business capital swept out to
sea.
The storm hit Hampton at an
inopportune time-the height
of the shad run. Nets left out
were swept away and pound
rigs mostly uninsured were
capsized. The rigs, the source
Of income for small family fish
ing operations. are valued at
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Auxiliary and state police
are guarding against looting in
the Buckroe Beach, Grand View
and Fox Hill sections of the
city.
Hampton City Manager C. E.
johnson said damage will run
at least "a couple of million
dollars" At least 500 homes
have been damaged, 200 of
them heavily.
Carolina Damage Heavy
Civil defense authorities of
North Carolina said damage will
run into the millions of dollars
from the storm and high tides
which battered the States off
shore Outer Banks. About 100
National Guardsmen were sent
into the area to prevent looting
after what some oldtimers
called the worst storm they can
remember, doing more damage
than hurricanes of recent years.
One fatality was reported in
North Carolina.
Earlier estimates of damage
ranged from between So million
and So million. The area was
pounded with winds of go miles