Wednesday, January 06, 1999
Second storm arrives today
Light snow, higher temps on the way
BY PHILLIP PINA
The Cincinnati Enquirer
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Poetry Sayer of downtown steps carefully along an icy sidewalk on Elm Street.
(Glenn Hartong photo)
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Greater Cincinnati could get another coating of snow today as a new storm system moves into the region.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory for the region, with snow developing by mid-afternoon and accumulating 1 to 3 inches by the end of the day.
But with it will come warmer temperatures, with a daytime high in the 30s.
Winter showed no mercy across much of the nation on Tuesday, bringing a record cold reading of minus-36 degrees to Illinois, more snow to heavily blanketed upstate New York and rare frigid conditions south to the Gulf Coast.
Upstate New York, already lying under a thick accumulation of snow, got no relief as a band of lake-fed snow that hit earlier in the week returned to dump up to 16 more inches in some areas.
In southern states, residents unused to icy conditions struggled to adjust. Tennessee had single-digit morning lows, deaths of homeless men blamed on exposure were reported in Nashville and Memphis. In South Carolina, utility crews went house to house to restore power after a fierce weekend ice storm.
Near the Gulf Coast, the predawn temperature dropped to 18 degrees in Mobile, Ala., breaking a 75-year-old record of 19. It was so cold that the Birmingham Post-Herald came out against winter on its editorial page.
Across the nation, the storm has been blamed for 91 deaths, many in traffic crashes caused by slick roads.
In the Tristate, three deaths have been connected to the cold temperatures, which reached minus-8 degrees Tuesday morning. At least 35 people have suffered weather-related injuries and been taken to Health Alliance hospitals, said Lori Deaton, spokeswoman for the Alliance, which includes University, Jewish and Christ hospitals.
Most of the injuries were broken bones and sprained ankles from slips on the ice, Ms. Deaton said. There were a few hypothermia and frostbite cases, and one sled-riding accident case.
Most emergency-room workers said it was beginning to slow down Tuesday after a busy weekend, when the potent storm blanketed the Midwest with snow.
The weather has filled up homeless shelters, and forced city officials to close down one apartment complex for insufficient heat Tuesday night. About 100 residents of four buildings in the 5100 block of Hawaiian Terrace in Mount Airy were placed in hotels after inspectors found the building boilers had been turned off, said city Councilman Charles Winburn, who inspected the apartments with several other members of coun cil Tuesday night.
Heating/air-conditioning units placed in the apartments were insufficiently wired and left some rooms unheated, city inspectors said. Bruce Eden, who lived in one of the apartments, kept warm by turning on his kitchen stove and oven. Donald Mercer, the city's assistant director of buildings and inspections said using the kitchen as a heat source is dangerous, but added the heating units installed in Mr. Eden's apartment also posed a risk.
Cincinnati City Council is expected to vote on an ordinance today that would would pay for the hotel rooms and transportation for the tenants, and go after the owner for retribution, Mr. Winburn said. Owner Michael Davis, of Castlerock Properties, could not be reached for comment.
The Mount Airy residents were not the only residents put out by the cold. Nearly 40 residents of the Jerusalem Judson Meadows remained bunkered in local hotels after water pipes burst Sunday and severely damaged the Oakley apartment complex.
The cold also played havoc on the roadways, with many parking lots resembling skating rinks. The American Automobile Association in Cincinnati handled about 2,000 calls on Monday and Tueday, about 75 percent of those needing tow trucks, said Amy Frede, AAA spokeswoman.
Most of the motorists had vehicles that simply wouldn't start, Ms. Frede said. It has been a hectic few days for the automobile club, which averages about 700 calls a day, she said. But winter is usually when the club records its busiest days.
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