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Taxpayers On The Hook For Cops’ Scandal

By Rick Murphy

Southampton Town taxpayers are on the hook for what could be hundreds of millions of dollars.

That’s because the town’s liability insurance doesn’t begin to cover the costs of lawsuits that likely will be filed as a result of the town police scandal.

The first salvo has already been filed. Mohammed Proctor is seeking $50 million in damages from the town and individual police officers, charging the town police’s street crimes unit illegally seized evidence in his case. There are now allegations one or more members of the unit were corrupt, casting doubts on numerous arrests the unit made or assisted in – and the subsequent prosecutions.

Town Attorney Tiffany Scarlato revealed that prior to October 15, 2011 the town was participating in a self-insurance program administered

by New York Municipal Insurance Reciprocal. The coverage was woefully inadequate, reimbursing

taxpayers for only $100,000 in attorneys fees.

Is it going to impact taxpayers?

“Absolutely,” Scarlato said.

After October 15 the town changes plans to another one offered by NYMIR, but even the better plan caps liability insurance at $1 million.

Suffolk County District Attorney Tom Spota vacated the convictions of Proctor, 36, of Riverhead, and Bernard Cooks, 31, of Southampton, two weeks ago. “The decision to release convicted drug dealers back into the community under these circumstances is not undertaken lightly and is made free from political consideration or favor contrary to recent assertions made by former town and police officials,” Spota said. “Rather, we are duty bound under the law to take this action.”

Both men were arrested by the Southampton Town Police Street Crimes Unit. Lieutenant James Kiernan, the supervisor of the

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The mood at Southampton Town Hall is tense as officials try to come to terms with the severity of the situation.

unit, has been suspended but not charged. Eric Sickles of Manorville, another member of the unit, has been sued by Proctor along with Kiernan and other officers, and the town. The Independent learned Sickles is being investigated for using drugs, and has worked on the unit for “several” years. He earns $118,326 and was sent to a rehab facility. He has not been formally charged.

“We’re hoping the investigation will come to a timely conclusion,” said Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst. She said the DA is investigating – a grand jury has already been sworn in – and there is an “internal investigation” as well.

Spota acknowledged the “credibility” of the Southampton police has come into question.

The town is woefully unprepared to defend itself without asking taxpayers for more money – there is $450,000 in the budget for outside council, and every individual named in any suit can demand the town pay for his or her attorney. There is only $250,00 in the budget for judgments and claims, Scarlato said, a paltry amount by most standards.

East Hampton Town, for example, which is also insured by NYMIR, has state policies for the police and public officials: both provide $1 million per incident liability coverage, with an aggregate of $2 million. The town also purchased an umbrella policy that provides an additional $3 million per incident.

“We’ve never been tested but I would say we’re pretty well covered,” said Len Bernard, the town’s budget officer.

The mood at Southampton Town Hall is tense as officials try to come to terms with the severity of the situation. Town Councilwoman Christine Scalera said, “We’ve been

told not to say anything either on or off the record to the press. We were told to refer everything to the town attorney.”

The DA’s office, meanwhile, is keeping the town at arm’s length.

“We didn’t know the prisoners would be released,” Scarlato acknowledged.

“None of us knew the extent of the DA’s investigation,” ThroneHolst said. “We were not in the loop.”

Behind the scenes the blame game has begun. The department has been in turmoil since the former chief, James Overton. retired, and the board went outside the department to choose his replacement, hiring William Wilson away from the Southampton Village Police Department. Wilson has been on the hot seat ever since, with critics complaining he ran up overtime costs and didn’t communicate well with the board.

One source claimed Kiernan was a viable candidate to become chief.

It was Wilson who recommended Kiernan’s suspension to the town board. Kiernan “certainly was not a candidate,” Throne Holst said, when the board was choosing Overton’s successor last year because he was only a sergeant at the time. “Civil Service law precluded us from going any lower than lieutenant,” she added.

Throne-Holst didn’t comment on the very real possibility the town will soon be facing numerous megamillion dollar lawsuits. “Let’s hope it doesn’t come to that.” The town is woefully under-insured and faces significant exposure should more lawsuits materialize.

Spota left little doubt, however.

“It is anticipated that other cases involving this unit will be dismissed,” he said.

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THIS COLUMN IS ONLY FOR MEN OVER 50 Men, we’ve been screwed.

Or, to put it another way, we’ve been screwed because we haven’t been screwed.

Back when we were in high school, having sex with a teacher was the stuff we were even afraid to fantasize about.

Today it seems that just about every 16-year-old boy going to school in New York City has been having sex with a female teacher.

Last week, Julie Warning, a beautiful global studies teacher, was caught making out in a park with her student Eric Arty.

Turns out he won a $400 bet among his friends as to who was going to be the first to bed (or as they used to say in my old neighborhood, “nail”) the 26-yearold teacher.

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science teacher, was caught having sex with a 16-year-old student and introducing him to “sexual positions,” according to a lawsuit by the boy’s mom.

A few years ago Mayor Bloomberg closed my old Brooklyn high school, Lafayette, because it was infested with warring gangs and there weren’t enough students making it to graduation.

When I went to Lafayette, a million years ago, the school was infested with warring gangs and there weren’t enough students making it to graduation.

A high school Mayor Bloomberg left open was James Madison High School in the Midwood section of Brooklyn.

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Do you know why James Madison had a great graduation record?

Because no male student was ready to leave the school and give up the sex.

Last week Erin Sayar, a 36-yearold James Madison teacher, who is married, was arrested for having sex with 16-year-old football star Kevin Eng during tutoring sessions in the classroom.

James Madison is a hotbed of sex, and apparently there just aren’t enough 16-year-old boys to go around.

A year or so ago Alini Brito and Cindy Mauro, two female teachers, were caught in a naked embrace in a classroom at James Madison by a janitor.

Instead of quietly cleaning up around them and taking pictures with his iPhone, as any red-blooded American male would do, the shocked janitor called school officials.

This is depressing to me and any male over 50. How did we miss out on all this teacher-student sex?

The sexiest thing that ever happened to me at Lafayette High School was I once saw my buxom earth science teacher’s bra strap when her button popped. I hyperventilated and got so excited I almost had a heart attack.

This doesn’t mean that Lafayette was sexless, as the following story will show.

A few years ago on the 50th anniversary celebration of Lafayette High School, I was lucky enough to be one of the 10 graduates honored by the school. It was pretty “heady” company for me to be in.

Larry King; Sandy Koufax, the greatest pitcher in history; Fred Wilpon, owner of the Mets, and actor Paul Sorvino were among the honorees.

After we all made our speeches I was approached by a man who graduated from Lafayette High School the same year that I did. I’ll call him Goldstein. I liked Goldstein but I must say I always found him to be a bit self-centered, smug and cocky.

We talked. “I’ve been to your restaurant in East Hampton and I love it,” he said.

I beamed.

“I see you being interviewed on television all the time,” he added.

I smiled.

“You’re married to Judy Licht.

I always love watching her on television.”

I beamed, again.

“How big is your advertising agency?” he inquired. I told him.

He was most impressed.

I was starting to feel a little smug

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and self-satisfied myself.

My wife, the beautiful Judy Licht, always says, “High school reunions are really all about getting even.”

After a time I asked him how he was doing.

“Lost my job a few years ago – haven’t been able to connect with anything.”

I was way ahead on points.

I was embarrassed – I changed the subject. I brought up the names of some of our old teachers. Did he remember Miss Whicker? Miss O’Conner?

Then I mentioned the sexiestlooking teacher in the school, Miss Debarto (not her real name).

Goldstein smiled.

Miss Debarto was an English teacher who used to run one of those after-school clubs that, now that I think about it, was favored by members of the football team.

“Miss Debarto? We all ****ed her,” smiled Goldstein.

“You what?”

“We all ****ed her.”

“You’re lying.”

“It’s the truth.”

Just then a big, bulky guy walked by.

Goldstein shouted, “Hey Nardico, tell Jerry about Miss Debarto.”

Without missing a beat Nardico said, “I ****ed her in the audio-visual room. She took me to her house once.”

That was it – Goldstein had won.

He beat me.

Forget my restaurant, my ad agency, my newspaper . . . forget Sandy Koufax’s Hall of Fame . . . forget Wilpon’s Mets . . . forget Larry King’s popularity . . . everything was meaningless. Goldstein had beaten us all when he was 16.

Goldstein had ****ed Miss Debarto.

That son-of-a-bitch. No wonder he was smug then. No wonder he’s smug now.

My evening was ruined. I felt like a loser. I excused myself, turned on my heel and walked towards the dance floor where a lot of graying, middle aged, slightly overweight men and women – many of whom were holding their high school sweethearts – were dancing to the tune of “Teach Me Tonight.”

I remembered the final words of the song: One thing isn’t very clear my love, Teacher shouldn’t stand so near my love Graduation’s almost here my love, You’d better teach me tonight.

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Behan’s Backing Bishop

By Kitty Merrill

John Behan didn’t mince words.

Calling him “the Great Houdini” who appears and disappears “with a suitcase full of thousand dollar bills,” the former state assemblyman, whose name was once synonymous with the Republican Party, had harsh words for Randy Altschuler, the GOP frontrunner in the race for Congress.

At a press conference in Montauk on Monday morning, Behan publicly announced his support for Congressman Tim Bishop, the incumbent Democrat. “I like a guy who’s homegrown,” Behan said, pointing to Bishop’s local roots.

By contrast, Behan said he doubts Altschuler even lives in the district.

As other opponents have charged, Behan claimed Altschuler moved to Suffolk County because he’s “a guy who wants to buy his way into Washington.”

Altschuler ran, unsuccessfully, against Bishop in 2010. Behan acknowledged that he supported the challenger two years ago, “and then I got to know him.” He said he met with Altschuler, spoke with him at length, then never heard from him again, never even received a note

that said ‘hello.’

“Now I’m giving him the goodbye,” Behan said.

This isn’t the first time Behan’s crossed party lines to offer an endorsement that was more critique of one candidate than enthusiasm for another. Last year, he threw his support behind Zack Cohen, the Democratic candidate for East Hampton Town Supervisor, who was also the choice of the local Independence Party, which ran a slate including Behan’s wife, Marilyn, and Bill Mott for town board. Cohen lost his bid to incumbent Super visor Bill Wilkinson, the Republican standard bearer.

On Monday Behan insisted he didn’t hold a grudge against the Republican Party; he chaired the local committee that ushered Wilkinson into office in 2010.

Not long afterwards, however, Behan resigned from the position, complaining that Wilkinson turned his back on those who got him elected. This week, Behan criticized the local committee for failing to heed his advice during the last Continued on Page 27.

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One time Republican stalwart, former Assemblyman John Behan (right) is endorsing Democratic Congressman Tim Bishop for re-election.

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Cohen’s Charges ‘Without Merit’

By Kitty Merrill

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Cohen, who ran unsuccessfully for town supervisor on the Democratic ticket last fall, is among a handful of political operatives

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who have relentlessly complained about the manner in which town officials handled the application for improving the former Ronjo property in Montauk. Political foes took issue with the proposed sale of an alleyway that bisects the property, as well as the issuance of building permits and planning board review.

The alley sale was the subject of an attempted permissive referendum.

Town Clerk Fred Overton deemed the petition invalid, but members of the local Democratic committee are bankrolling a legal appeal.

In a letter written to The Independent and published in the May 2 edition, Cohen opined it was not legal to issue a building permit for the site, and concluded that the town attorneys and owners’ attorney “encouraged” the building inspector to commit an illegal action. Cohen further suggested that the certain town board members asked officials to “find a way” to help their friends.

“This office has conducted a thorough investigation into these serious charges,” McPartland’s letter informs. Town officials were interviewed and Cohen was given a chance to support his claims. He met with McPartland and detectives for hours, in fact. The DA inspected and analyzed relevant documents, along with other evidence, the division chief reported.

“As a result of our investigation it is determined that each and every allegation of illegal conduct or misconduct in the letter is totally baseless,” McPartland wrote. There is “no evidence at all” to support the notion that the building permit was issued illegally. There is no evidence at all that the attorneys encouraged illegal action and, said McPartland, “the suggestion that the owners received an unfair advantage from ‘friends’ on the Town Board is totally without merit.”

Jilnicki wrote the DA’s office requesting a probe after Cohen appeared at a town board meeting casting suspicion on Councilwoman Theresa Quigley and public safety division administrator Pat Gunn.

He said Gunn had called “grilling” him about the contents of his letter after meeting with Quigley and a conference call with the applicant’s attorney. A heated exchange with the councilwoman ensued and resulted in Jilnicki contacting the DA and requesting an investigation.

Cohen was not immediately available for comment. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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New Council Helps New Applicants

By Emily Toy

They’re here to help you.

Southampton Town Board met with Deputy Town Attorney Kathleen Murray and Acting Town Planning and Development Administrator Freda Eisenberg Friday afternoon to discuss the proposed creation of the Project Development Council.

The effort, sponsored by Councilman Chris Nuzzi, is an attempt to avoid confusion with land use applications, which would include non-administrative site plans, minor or major subdivisions, variance applications and/or any project requiring review by more than one town agency or board.

(Planned Development District or change-of-zone applications/ requests would be excluded.)

Town board members realized the befuddlement and complications that typically arise during the process of a land use application, with many requiring approval from more than one department or board. The Project Development Council, which Eisenberg deemed “appropriate,” for the town, would act as a liaison for applicants to the town board, helping to guide applicants through the process, p r ov i d e ac c urat e, co n si ste n t information and foster and maintain consistency in the process.

“The idea behind this concern is consistency and timeliness of information,” Nuzzi said. “This will help in terms of time as well as drawing together individuals in the same departments to discuss the issues of each problem,” he continued. “I think it betters the ability for the applicant to understand what the town is asking of them.”

Once convened, the council would meet regularly (about twice a month) to oversee applications, provide periodic status updates to the town board, and work to make the town’s processes as predictable as possible for residents and applicants alike.

“While not mandatory that applicants meet with the Council, the Town Board seeks to encourage a dialogue between applicants and the various departments/boards in order to facilitate a better, more productive working relationship,” according to a draft resolution prepared by Murray.

The proposed Project Development Council will be comprised of a representative

from the Department of Land Management, Building and Zoning Division, the Planning Division, the Environmental Division, the Engineer’s Office, the Highway Department, the Intermodal Transportation Office, the Fire Marshal’s Office, and the Town Attorney’s Office.

Other members of the town board felt enthusiastic about the

proposal.

“As someone who has done a lot of this, this would be a great thing to formalize,” said Councilwoman Christine Preston Scalera.

Deputy Super visor Frank Zappone, sitting in for Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst, agreed.

“This would formalize that which is already being done informally,” he said. “The intent

is informational, but of course, the devil is in the details.”

Southampton Business Alliance Council member Jane Held was also excited about the proposal.

“There’s always a problem with the integration of departments,” she said. “We see this as a vehicle to help with that. We’re really supportive of it.”

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Arrest Accused Shooter

By Kitty Merrill

Frank Hanna, 27, was charged with third degree criminal possession of a weapon and second degree assault, both felonies, plus misdemeanor menacing last Wednesday in connection with the May 24 shooting in East Hampton.

He’s accused of shooting Frederick Stephens, 21.

According to some reports, the victim’s mother claimed the shooting was an accident, the result of horseplay in the basement of a home on Springs Fireplace Road.

Soon after the incident police sources also speculated the shooting was a mishap.

Mishap or no, the shooting sparked drama on the streets, when the victim’s girlfriend, who was transporting Stephens, led several police agencies on a high speed chase from the village to Southampton Hospital. She was ultimately charged with reckless driving, among other vehicular transgressions.

Asked why it took police almost a week to make an arrest, Det. Lt. Chris Anderson explained “a lot of different variables” were involved in the investigation. Search warrants were procured, then executed at Hanna’s home and in the car that

raced Stephens to the hospital. DNA tests were taken and a crime lab report determined the weapon was a .44-caliber pistol. Four additional firearms, an expended bullet, and an outside video surveillance system were discovered during the search.

Cops have yet to find the weapon. Anderson reported that Hanna invoked his right to counsel immediately, and “We have not spoken to the defendant regarding the case.” What Hanna allegedly did with the gun is “certainly something he will have to answer for at some point in time,” Anderson said.

According to a felony complaint filed with East Hampton Town Justice

Court, Hanna was charged with third degree weapons possession because he’d previously been convicted of other crimes. He was convicted of petit larceny in 2004, attempted unlawful imprisonment in 2005 and criminal possession of stolen property in 2010.

The case was expected to be adjourned from local jurisdiction and handed over to superior court yesterday. Following an arraignment in East Hampton last Thursday, Hanna was remanded to Suffolk County jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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Alerting Parents To Sex Offenders

By Erin Berglin

O n We d n e s d a y, a b i l l w a s passed in the New York State Senate requiring school districts to distribute information on local sex offenders to parents of its students.

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Senator Ken LaValle amends the current law to provide funding for reimbursement of costs incurred in distributing the pertinent information.

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with local law enforcement agencies who then may distribute the name, picture, address, employment and background history. With this amendment, schools will be required to do the same once they receive the information from police,

and will be compensated for the costs involved to comply with the law.

“The rate of recidivism among sex offenders is very high,” LaValle said. “It is important that the public be made aware of any dangerous offenders who may be living in their neighborhood. The information is currently available to the public, but many parents are not aware of this, or do not know where to look to find the information. Sending the offenders’ profiles to the parents in the school district provides an extra assurance that each household has the information that could protect their children from dangerous predators.”

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Hooker, And Johns, Hooked In Riverside

By Emily Toy

S o u t h a m p t o n To w n Po l i c e a r r e s t e d 10 p e o p l e a f t e r a prostitution sting in Riverside late Saturday night and early Sunday morning.

The enforcement action was in direct response to citizen and business owner complaints of frequent and highly visible prostitution in the area. The area around the Riverside traffic circle was targeted based on the location of the complaints.

Undercover officers posing as both prostitutes and “Johns,” or customers were used during the operation. Eight arrests were made for patronizing a prostitute in the third degree, a misdemeanor, after the defendants allegedly agreed to pay for sex, as well as one for prostitution, a misdemeanor, and one for promoting prostitution in the fourth degree, also a misdemeanor.

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Joe Lee McKay, 65, of Mastic, was charged with promoting prostitution in the fourth degree after he advanced the crime of prostitution by allegedly “steering” two of the men to the undercover prostitute and negotiated the price

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Fabian Bhor, 40, Timoteo Lopez, 27, Ruben Mutzutz, 36, Wilmo Urrea-Bedon, 43, Mario Soyos, 29, Marvin Boco, 27, and Ivan Parades, 17, all Riverhead residents, and Amadeo Valasquez, 22, of Flanders, were all charged with patronizing a prostitute in the third degree. Additionally, Lopez was

charged with unlawful possession of marijuana, a violation, and Mutzutz was charged with resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.

All of the people arrested either posted bail and were scheduled to return to Southampton Town Justice Court on June 27 or were arraigned at 9 AM on Sunday.

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The Amagansett Life-Saving and Coast Guard Station Committee will conduct a reenactment of the fateful night of June 13, 1942 on its 50th anniversary.

Shortly after midnight that night four men landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York, from a German submarine, clad in German uniforms and bringing ashore enough explosives, primers, and incendiaries to support an expected two-year career in the sabotage of American defense-related production The evening will begin at 7 PM on June 13 at the station, which is about two-thirds of the way down the hill from Bluff Road on the right side of Atlantic Avenue.

Kent Miller, the committee chairman, and East Hampton Town council member Dominick Stanzione will host.

The crowd will be led by Peter Garnham, the board president of the Amagansett Historical Association, to follow the steps taken by John Cullen,

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and dangerous character played by Stanzione. Miller will play Seaman Cullen. Robert Strada, the director of LTV and a member of the committee, has a small supporting role. Hugh King, another member of the committee, wrote the detailed script.

To the best of our knowledge, a

recreation of this event has never been done before. It is particularly poignant this year because of the recent death of John Cullen, the coast guardsman and hero, on September 1,2011. Organizers hope to make this event an annual commemoration.

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The Greater Westhampton Chamber of Commerce Spring Arts & Crafts show last weekend brought a bounty of browsers to the village green in Westhampton Beach.

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RICK’S SPACE Of Bugs And Men Did you ever notice city folks are scared of the dark?

When I first met my wife, Karen, she lived on Second Avenue in Manhattan, around the corner from the Men’s Homeless Shelter.

These guys scared the crap out of me. Teeth missing, chain smoking, they reeked of liquor and god knows what else. They spent their waking hours sitting on the stoop, spitting and leering.

When I would return Karen to the city on Sunday night around midnight, she would help unload the car in front of these psychos,

wearing a miniskirt and high heels, totally unaware that these men were staring at her, thinking about ways they could dismember her.

One morning they came at me, approaching on the driver’s side as I was leaving to go back to East Hampton. I was so scared I drove the entire block on the sidewalk rather than confront these savages.

Cut to East Hampton, our first house. There we are, in Northwest Woods, not a soul around.

“Did you here that?” Karen would sit up, startled, waking me from a dead sleep.

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I think there is someone d o w n s t a i r s ,” s h e ’ d w h i s p e r nervously.

“Well, it can’t be anyone from the Men’s Homeless Shelter,” I’d say.

It took a couple years for Karen to even go outside at night. She would even get scared walking to the car.

“What are you afraid of?” I would ask. “All the murderers and rapists live on your block in the city.”

But there were intruders, millions of them. Bugs. Oh, city folk know roaches OK, and an occasional fly or mosquito, but they can’t possibly understand the variety and sheer numbers of the pests out here.

When we first moved to the woods it was unbelievable. If you turned on an inside light after dark, the entire sliding door to the deck would be covered with bugs within seconds. Karen found this unbelievably creepy, leaving her to ponder an enigma every night. If she shut the light off to go out, she would be afraid of the dark. If she opened the door with the lights on, the bugs would fly wildly through the house.

Many nights we’d lay awake, hearing the buzzing in the bedroom.

We knew they were there, ready to strike.

Forget roaches. We have bloodsucking ticks that can kill you. We have poisonous wasps, red ants, green and black flies, mosquitoes that can paralyze, not to mention poisonous spiders.

One thing city folk need to know if they intend to come out here: the old adages about not having poisonous spiders here? It’s a lie.

We have ‘em all (same thing with snakes, by the way.)

When I was little my friends in Sag Harbor would tell me the inch worms that dangle from trees crawl

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into your ear and eat your brain. I was petrified for years until my big brother pointed out that in my case they could walk right through to the other ear without encountering a brain. This made me feel better.

The ugliest of all the bugs, are, oddly enough, harmless. Consider the poor June Bug – the ugly duckling of the bug world whose entire life unfolds in one lousy month. The biggest thrill – the equivalent of sex, perhaps – is to attach onto a screen door, slip inside a house, bump around the walls (making sickening thuds), and then land upside down, never to be righted again. Jeez, and I thought my life sucked.

We’ve had the house 15 years.

The first couple years it was unreal.

Once we left the pool light on all night and the next morning a huge mound of bugs – all identical – were piled up, one on top of the other, on the surface of the water. There must have been a million. They were lemmings – one followed another in, never to leave. It was sickening, and sad.

There are less of everything now. Fewer mosquitoes. Fewer flies.

Fewer moths, which used to thicken the air like fog.

There are more houses, though, and more people, at least for now.

The realization is inescapable.

The more the earth is overdeveloped and misused, the more carnage will take place. More and more species will disappear from the face of the earth. One of these days it will be humans tumbling to our death in the proverbial swimming pool.

Then the earth will be ruled by the bugs as it once was – or, by the pervs from the Men’s Homeless Shelter.

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EDITORIAL Overstepping His Bounds Bloggers and Facebookers were all abuzz this week, with the news that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was looking to ban oversized sugared drinks in his realm. Seriously, Mike? Have you nothing better to do?

If adopted the ban would prohibit the sale by restaurants, food carts, movie theaters or delis of sugary beverages in containers larger than 16 ounces. Should the city’s board of health give the green light, Manhattanites can say goodbye to their massive Slurpees or gi-normous sodas to accompany vats of popcorn at the movies.

It is a well meaning idea – our kids hardly need that kind of intake. It’s also true though, that the smaller the size, the more it costs per ounce – so the giant beverage companies stand to make a killing.

While everyone agrees obesity is a national health issue with a hefty health care price tag, we can’t help but feel Bloomberg’s over reaching. At what point do he and other zealous lawmakers stop legislating lifestyle?

Across status updates the word “dictatorship” appeared, as posters railed against Big Brother presuming to legislate what people can eat or drink.

(Remember, Bloomie’s the one who also banned trans fats and required the posting of calorie counts in city eateries.) The overall feeling was – he goes too far, delving into a part of life that should be a private affair.

To justify the ban, Bloomberg’s experts cited obesity stats among city school children. If he’s serious about doing something about our fat and un-fit kids, maybe he might want to take a look at what the schools themselves offer children. Maybe he might want to remove vending machines that offer sugary drinks from school cafeterias, and replace the high carb/low nutrition school meals with fresh foods.

But, wait. That would cost money.

One blogger, supportive of the notion of legislating diet suggested the mayor go for the blatant money grab and enact a sin tax on soda and sugary drinks, but most we’ve seen had the same message for the mayor: MYOB. And said another? “I’ll have two mediums, please.”

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Bonac Fireworks Dear Rick, After the May 23 issue came out with

full page color ads for “The Max Cure Fireworks” I started getting a lot of phone calls asking what was going on.

Is the Clamshell Foundation not involved anymore? What happened? Some were angry, some confused and others were going to withhold donations.

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I’ve been in direct contact with Richard Plotkin, co-chair of Max Cure. He’s a very forthcoming, honorable man who has devoted his life to raising money for pediatric cancer research and is going above and beyond to correct the misconceptions and revise their advertising. The Max Cure Foundation is also going to make a generous donation to the Clamshell Foundation in support of our fireworks.

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Unfair Judgments Dear Mr. Murphy, Here I come again with another

venting. It’s about two TV shows, “American Idol” and “Dancing with the Stars.” To be very honest, I do not usually watch these shows but this year perhaps I was biased.

I watched them because Jessica Sanchez and Cheryl Burke are mixed Philippine ladies. In “American Idol,” clearly the winner should have been Jessica. Everyone knows that but the American people got it wrong.

In “Dancing with the Stars,” the clear winner was Mark Ballas and his partner Katherine. The American people got it wrong again. How can we change these unfair judgments of those who are truly the winners? The worst scenario is that people watching all over the world, witness these ridiculous errors.

By the way, Jessica is only 16 years old, but she took her defeat graciously. We will be seeing her soon in one of our PhilippineAmerican fundraising events in New York City and New Jersey.

Thanks again for letting me express my disgust over these shows.

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Who Will Carry On? Letters to the Editor, Infanticide is a grave error morally, economically, socially, historically. As long as we chose to kill (you may chose wording such as eliminate, abort, choice) our future generations, we can count on losing our country. No country that has dropped below its replacement population has ever recovered. The United States is now at 2.1 children per couple, and that is only because of the immigrant’s birthrate of 4 per couple. There will be no one to improve life in the U.S., to invent a cure for diabetes, cancer, MS, or to fund your schools, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, welfare and food stamps. There will be no future Americans.

The news is not being broadcast that our legislators voted down a bill that would have made it illegal to abort babies of the unwanted gender. Sex-selective abortions in one-child-China have resulted in 120 boys per 100 girls born alive. In England, France and India the figures are worse.

There are hundreds of couples hoping to adopt, there are waiting arms to love and nurture unwanted babies. Please choose life.

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Robin Smith Nothing surprises me any more. Sadly, it’s just the way of the world right now. If you’re in power and have a bit of money, you can always slide right by it. No punishment. No nothing.

This was about a million dollars of campaign contributions, absolutely a crime.

Lenore Levy I was shocked. But I guess I shouldn’t have been because it was really a legal question. So I shouldn’t have been that surprised. It was really about the campaign finance money. It wasn’t about his despicable behavior, and the prosecution didn’t make a great case.

Phyllis Gallaway Shocked and appalled. When the jury deliberated all week I thought he might get off.

He was definitely guilty but they just didn’t have the evidence to convict him. As a lawyer he was smart enough to cover his tracks. He’s brilliant at what he does but he’s also very sleazy.

Gloria Sacchi I was surprised. He knew how to get away with it. He’s a politician. That’s why there’s so much of this craziness going on. It wasn’t right but I doubt that he’ll be retried. You hate to say someone didn’t do their job, but the prosecution seemed to present a weak case.

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Hampton Bays

Arts And Crafts Show The 25th Annual Arts and Craft Show will be held July 28 and 29 at the Pocket Park on Montauk Highway. Volunteers are always welcome to help with the Chamber of Commerce Booth.

San Gennaro Feast The San Gennaro Feast committee is looking for volunteers to help plan this year’s event. The Feast will be held on October 6 and 7. A fundraiser will be held on July 18 at Oakland’s Restaurant with live entertainment, food and drinks. Contact Joyce Gilbert at the Hampton Bays Chamber of Commerce if you would like more information.

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Benefit Cocktail Party Stony Hill Stables, owned and operated by the Hotchkiss family for more than five decades, announced the launch of the newly formed Stony Hill Stable Foundation, a not-for-profit organization with the express purpose of promoting equine sports through riding education and competitive opportunities for children and young adults in the local residential East End community.

In celebration of the launch of the Stony Hill Stable Foundation, a Benefit Cocktail Party will be held on the evening of Saturday, June 30 from 6 to 8 PM at Stony Hill

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Gardening Presentation The Friends of the Montauk Library will present master gardener Matt Stedman of Fort Pond Native Plants at its general meeting on Tuesday at 7:30 PM. Stedman will take questions after his presentation.

For more info call 631-668-3377.

Commercial Fisherman Honored The Montauk Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Montauk Old Timers roundtable discussion and dinner at the Inlet Seafood Restaurant on East Lake Drive on Tuesday starting at 4 PM. Nine Montauk commercial fishermen and two historians will participate. Carl Darenberg of the Montauk Marine Basin will be the narrator.

Perry (Chip) Duryea and Stuart Vorpahl are the honored fishing historians who will be relating the story of Montauk’s fishing industry history. The commercial fishermen who are being honored are: Jimmy Lester, Milton Miller, Teddy Stevens, Dave Krusa, John Rade, Bobby Byrnes, Scot Bennett, John Nolan and the Inlet Seafood commercial fishery owners. Robert Huser, a renowned lobsterman, who passed away in March, will be honored In

The Hotchkiss family announced the launch of the newly formed Stony Hill Stable Foundation.

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The public is welcome to the 4 PM roundtable (free) and dinner ($35, including one wine or beer) following the discussion is at 7 PM. Raffle prizes will be offered after dinner. For tickets contact the Montauk Chamber of Commerce (631-668-2429), the Montauk Marine Basin (631-668-3900) or at the door.

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Charles Addams Festival The Bridgehampton Historical Society has joined with the Charles Addams Foundation to bring a cartooning workshop to children and young adults at the end of June. The workshop fulfills part of the mission of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, to share his artistic achievements through

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The prestigious NYSPHSAA Award is presented to athletes at Riverhead High School that, at the end of their high school careers, accumulated at least 52 points for participation in varsity and junior varsity sports, intramurals, and leadership activities. This year’s recipients are L-R: Gabrielle Escallier, Kevin Williams, Joshua Blom, Anthony Stimpfel, Rachel Harrison-Smith, Melodee Riley, Mariah Messina, Kristen Gevinski, Tyesha Harrell, Amy Yarborough, Allison Doscinski, and Fatima Brown. Charles Bartlett was not pictured.

S chool D ays Tuckahoe School Last Thursday Tuckahoe School held its National Junior Honor Society Ceremony. Membership in the Tuckahoe School Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society recognizes students whose high academic achievement make them eligible for membership.

In addition, students must demonstrate leadership, good character, and community service to their school and/or community.

Tuckahoe School is proud to announce the following students who were inducted on Thursday for membership of the Tuckahoe School Chapter of the National Junior Honor Society: LuMei Abatangelo, Charles Bedard, Paolo Caglioti, Jaden Cajthaml, Spencer Crough, Michael Finalborgo, Gianna Fiorello, Rachel Grindle, Marcelina Kropiwnicka, Isabel Martin, Devon O’Brien, Vanessa Oliveira, Cameron Olsen, Daniel Quezada, Milton Reinoso and Nicolas Westerhoff. Congratulations NJHS students!

Flag Day at Tuckahoe School will be celebrated this year on Thursday, June 14. On Wednesday, June 20, at 1:15 PM to 2:30 PM, Tuckahoe will be hosting its annual St. Baldrick’s event in the cafetorium. This year, the school Barbecue & Field Day will be held on Thursday, June 21 at 11 AM to 2:30 PM.

their exhibition, “Radiance of The East and The West” at The Ross Gallery on May 25. It was the most recent in a series of student-curated exhibitions highlighting the work of professional artists from the East End community. Under the direction of art teacher Jon Mulhern, this year’s show features work by Paton Miller and Kryn Olson.

Guests enjoyed refreshments while browsing the artwork and listening to the students discuss the artists. The show ends Tuesday.

The Upper School was treated to a special assembly on May 21 featuring speakers from Everyone is Gay, an advice website with an emphasis on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) youth. Founded by Kristin Russo and Dannielle Owens-Reid, the website strives to encourage a deeper understanding of LGBTQ issues, to examine how those issues intersect with other communities, promote peer advocacy and to provide outreach and resources.

The High School Performing Arts Spring Concert was held in the Court Theater on May 24. The evening opened with a dedication to jazz great and Ross teacher Hal McKusick, who passed away in April.

Ross Performing Arts Chair Adam Judd cited some of the many ways Hal influenced the School.

Ross Upper School Ross School seventh graders hosted an opening reception for

Ross Lower School The first grade went on two field trips recently, to Quail Hill Farm in

Amagansett and the LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton. As part of their study on the decomposition cycle, the students visited with Ross parent and Quail Hill farmer Scott Chaskey on May 17. Scott led them on a tour of his communitysupported organic farm and helped answer the question, “Where does food from Ross go after it is placed in the compost bin?” The students

also enjoyed meeting the baby ducklings, touring the farm, having a picnic, and playing in the orchard.

On May 25, the first graders enjoyed another trip, this time to LongHouse in conjunction with their study of patterns. They toured the grounds and conducted their own pattern hunt among the beautiful sculpture gardens.

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Shinnecock Dredged This Winter

By Erin Berglin

Many locals are all too familiar with the ever-changing coastline west of the Shinnecock Inlet in Hampton Bays. In the winter the waves break precariously only feet from the parking lot overlooking the inlet, and in the summer suddenly the beach is back. The ancient wood jetty pilings play a dangerous game

in the waves, acting as a barometer of the extent of the erosion: if they’re visible the beach is in bad shape.

This week, Congressman Tim Bishop has announced that he secured $5.1 million for a US Army Corp of Engineers dredge of the Shinnecock Inlet, with sand dredged from the inlet bottom to be placed

on the badly eroded section of beach officially referred to as West of Shinnecock Inlet. Known locally to surfers, kite boarders, wind surfers, and all manner of wave enthusiasts as “the Bowl,” it is ironically named for the way the beach is eroded into a bowl shape by the western flowing currents coming off the east jetty of the inlet.

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“The beach west of Shinnecock Inlet has become dangerously eroded, and securing this funding for a dredge of the inlet will protect the marine infrastructure and restaurants in the area and the more than 500 jobs they support. At the same time it will ensure continued safe access to New York’s secondbusiest fishing port,” Congressman Bishop said.

The entire cost of the project will be covered by federal funding through the Army Corp of Engineers and the Coastal Emergencies program, with no financial burden falling on local government.

“This is really fantastic news,” said Southampton Town Supervisor Anna Throne-Holst. “We have been working closely with the Congressman for months to make our case to the Army Corps about the importance of investing in the Shinnecock Inlet, and the urgency of doing so quickly. I cannot thank him enough for his advocacy on our behalf.

“This was clearly a priority issue for him because he understands the vital economic and environmental significance of the inlet and its neighboring docks and businesses to the surrounding community and regional fishing industry. In times like these, when Federal monies are so limited, the ability to prevail in securing this level of funding is a testament to the good work our of Congressman,” she said.

This tiny peninsula of land was formed by a hurricane and is constantly at the mercy of the sea, and only by the interference of man has it been able to literally weather the storm. According to the Army Corp, a contract to dredge and place the sand where it is badly needed on WOSI will be awarded by the end of the fiscal year in September, and work should be completed this January.

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Bishop/Behan

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7. campaign, and not selecting his wife and Mott to run alongside Wilkinson who, Behan pointed out, “won by a whopping 15 votes.” Wilkinson’s running mates, Stephen Gaines and Rich Haeg lost to Democrats Sylvia Overby and Peter Van Scoyoc, as did Mott and Marilyn Behan.

Turning the focus from the challenger to Bishop, Behan, a decorated veteran, praised the congressman’s work assisting vets.

He noted that when he first ran for office, he garnered bipartisan support from Perry Duryea and Otis Pike stating, “It’s not about politics, it’s about people.”

Calling Behan “a true American hero,” Bishop said, “For him to reach across the aisle and support my candidacy means more than I can say.”

Jeanne Frankl, chair of the local Democratic Committee was also on hand at the press conference, which was held at La Bodega, former Councilwoman Julia Prince’s new restaurant. Frankl called Behan’s endorsement “an acknowledgement of the excellence

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of our Congressman. It’s hard for me to see how anybody on the East End could fail to support him.”

Altschuler’s campaign manager, Diana Weir offered a comment on the morning’s events via email.

“Today’s endorsement was really about local politics, and has no impact on the tremendous momentum Randy has right now,” she wrote.

“We released a specific 10-point jobs plan focused on fixing Long Island’s economy; we have won endorsements from the New York State Independence Party, the Suffolk County Conservative Party and the Suffolk County Republican Party. Our primary opponent just dropped out of the race allowing us to focus 100 percent on the general election where voters will be faced with a clear choice between a selfmade businessman and job creator like Randy Altschuler and a career bureaucrat turned politician who has destroyed jobs on Long Island like Tim Bishop.”

Earlier this spring, the race saw another reversal, when the Independence Party, which had backed Bishop each time he ran in the past, endorsed Altschuler. kmerrill@indyeastend.com

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Lion’s Club Golf Tourney The Southampton Lions Club will host its annual Gold Tournament on next Wednesday.

The outing raises needed funds for an important cause: to assist the sight-impaired with guide dogs and large print books.

This year’s event will take place at the Noyac Golf Club.

To find out how to participate call Bob Grisnik at 631-2831506.

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Fishing Historians Perry (Chip) Duryea and Stuart Vorpahl are slated to offer additional information about the history of Montauk’s fishing industry.

Held at Inlet Seafood on East Lake Drive next Tuesday, the dinner kicks off with the free panel discussion at 4 PM. Dinner is at 7 PM, with tickets priced at $35. Get them at the door or at the Montauk Chamber of Commerce. Call 631-668-2428.

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May is the month when daytime temperatures slowly rise from the fifties at the start of the month to the eighties at month’s end.

This year, May had a daytime high on the 4th of 52 degrees. On the 28th, a high of 82 degrees was recorded.

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Most rains are from an easterly direction. If it is winter time and snow is in the forecast, the winds will come from the northeast. Otherwise, a more south or southeast direction will bring rain.

Long Island, with its 125 miles and Montauk Point out in the Atlantic Ocean, is a difficult, variable place to predict weather. Years ago, a 100 degree temperature was frequently recorded. With global warming in our present years, will we have another summer that warm?

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A hand very similar to this one was played recently at St. Luke's Church in East Hampton. Several experienced declarers difficulty making their contract. One A handhad very similar to this declarer remembered the adage about drawing trump and one was played recently at St. winning the first immediately led a trump to dummy after trick with the ace spades.

West won the queen and played Luke’s Church in of East Hampton. another spade which South trumped in hand.

Several experienced declarers Unfortunately, South's plan to had ruff his diamond losers in dummy was making now in trouble. it is true that the trump difficulty their While contract. split (all three in East's hand) was unlikely, South could One declarer remembered the that did not depend have made a plan to make his contract on how about the trumps split.trump He might not make an overtrick as adage drawing and he had hoped but could have taken ten tricks. immediately led a trump to dummy Since it is clear that the contract can only be made with after winning firstmust trickrefrain with the several ruffs,the South from starting the trumps.

Instead, he needs towon play the his queen winning high cards and then ace of spades.

West start ruffing. He should reverse the dummy and plan to ruff and another his played two losing spades spade and two which losing clubs with hearts from his own hand. Heingets back to dummy by trumping diamonds South trumped hand.

Unfortunately, South’s plan to ruff his diamond losers in dummy was now in trouble. While it is true that the trump split (all three in East’s hand) was unlikely, South could have made a plan to make his contract that did not depend on how the trumps split. He might not make an overtrick as he had hoped but could have taken ten tricks.

Since it is clear that the contract can only be made with several ruffs, South must refrain from starting the trumps. Instead, he needs to play his winning high cards and then start ruffing. He should reverse the dummy and plan to ruff his two losing spades and two losing clubs with hearts from his own hand. He gets back to dummy by trumping diamonds with low hearts.

If East overtrumps the third diamond, he (East) cannot lead trumps without sacrificing a trump trick to the king. By playing in this fashion, South loses only the three trump tricks that East can always win.

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Humes had been particularly impressive, hurling a no hitter through five without allowing a ball to leave the infield.

Pierson senior Mike Heller, though, felt he could get on base when he led off the bottom of the seventh, and coach Jonathan Tortorella, who was going to opt for a pinch hitter, felt the youngster’s vibe. Heller punched a single to right – only the second hit of the game for the Whalers -- advanced to third on an errant throw, and scored on a passed ball.

The locals who made the trip to the Dowling Sports Complex erupted: Pierson had won the coveted Long Island Class C championship a week after beating Southold for the Suffolk County title.

It was a heartbreaking loss for Hume and the Rocks (14-9) but an exhilarating one for the Whalers, who now advance into the regional finals today versus the winner of yesterday’s Tri-Valley Haldane game. Regardless of which team wins the game today will be played at Manhattanville College at 4 PM, meaning the Whalers have another road trip ahead.

There could be more: a win today propels the Whalers to the New York State Championship semifinals Saturday in Binghampton.

Bonackers Lose So close. The East Hampton

softball team had already won the first game of three game series against East Sayville by an 8-4 margin, and were battling the Golden Flashes again last Thursday with the Suffolk County Class A championship on the lin. But Melissa Selts, on the mound for Sayville, would have none of that talk. She dominated the locals, spinning a two-hit shutout, and Kira Karl provided just enough offense for the visitor to eke out a 2-0 victory.

The next day, playing at Sayville, Lou Reale’s young charges had to face Selts again, and the youngster pulled a nifty déjà vu, hurling another two hitter and punching a two-run triple as the Golden Flashes earned the title with a 4-0 win, ending East Hampton’s season at 17-7.

Correction In an article in last week’s p a p e r w e r e p o r t e d Ty l e r Brenneman, a former star athlete from East Hampton, earned a prestigious scholar athlete award. We omitted the fact that he attends Notre Dame and plays lacrosse there.

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Hunkering Down – Hurricanes On Long Island 2012…

Last week, Hurricane Beryl gave the southeast US a pretty good dousing – and us a warning. Almost without exception, we get the tail, shoulder or rump of one or two of the dozen or so hurricanes that form in the Atlantic between the Caribbean and Africa and bring so much destruction and misery with them as they thunder west and north.

What Is It? A hurricane is, in the words of scientists, an organized rotating weather system that develops in the tropics. Technically, it is a “tropical cyclone” and it is classified as one of three states, with hurricanes being further classified into levels of destruction: Tropical Depression: sustained winds of 38 mph, or Tropical Storm: sustained winds of 39 to 73 mph, or Hurricane: sustained winds of 74 mph or greater.

By the way, hurricanes are called typhoons in the western Pacific and cyclones in the Indian Ocean.

Categories Of Hurricanes We’ve all heard the weather reporter state that “Hurricane X is now a Category 3 hurricane and headed for so and so.” What does that mean?

Category One: Anything not tied down is going e.g. Irene, 2011 Category Two: Trees will go down. Roofs in jeopardy e.g. Floyd, 1999 Category Three: Many trees will go down, small buildings in jeopardy e.g. Betsy, 1965 C a t e g o r y Fo u r : C o m p l e t e destruction of many buildings, e.g.: Hugo, 1989 Category Five: Catastrophe, wrath of God e.g. Andrew, 1992

Katrina, 2005 USCG hurricane aircraft reported Andrew and Katrina had generated winds over 200 mph at various times.

Tidal Surges For islanders, as bad as the winds will be, it is the tides and tidal surges that will do most of the damage, which is why even these tails that go by every year leave so much trouble behind. The storm tide is added to the astronomical tides. And when those waves hit something solid, they generate force dozens of times more powerful than wind of the same speed. Andrew generated a storm tide of 17 feet.

Camille in 1969? 24 feet.

Add to that the population growth in our area and the increase in the value of homes and it can spell either “an absolute disaster” or “they were prepared.”

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the boat? Don’t even THINK about staying on her.

4. How about your prescription medicines? A first-aid kit?

flowing water can carry your car away. Yes. Only two feet of moving water. Turn around and go another way.

What To Do During The Storm 1. Have the radio or TV on. If the power goes out and you don’t have a portable radio, I’d get the kids in the car and “to grandmother’s house we go . . . !” 2. Propane tanks on your property? Shut them off completely. 3. Turn the refrigerator up all the way and don’t open the door idly.

4. Fill the bathtub with water.

How about the big spaghetti pot?

Anything that can hold water and keep it clean. 5. If ordered to evacuate, do so. Immediately. And tell someone where you are going.

6. When evacuating, don’t drive across flowing water. Two feet of

After The Storm 1. If you were ordered to evacuate, don’t go back until the area is declared safe. 2. If you see someone who needs rescuing, unless the threat of loss of life is imminent, call 9-1-1. 3. See standing water? Do you know if any power cables lie in it?

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bottom of the inlet with three to five pounders moving throughout the bay.

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