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ELESCOPE Palor:nar Community College, 1140 West Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069-1487
Friday, February 21, 1992
Volume 45, Number 16
Weekend storm batters· Palomar campus Strong storms linked to El Nino phenomenon
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By Jacques Domercq Staff Writer and Roman S. Koenig Editor-in-Chief Palomar College was swamped in last weekend's storm, which left at least 80 buildings flooded requiring over 700 hours of clean-up work. According to Doug Key, associate professor in the Earth Sciences Department, 2.03 inches of rain were dumped on campus. Key added that offices in the Earth Sciences Department were not spared in the deluge of rain. Director of Facilities Mike Ellis said so much rain fell last Saturday thatthe college's drainage system could not handle the volume. Seventy-three people worked over the holiday weekend pumping out water and shoveling mud, he said. "I couldn't even get to the college because of the flooding," said Ellis. He said the flood waters did subside quickly and eventually was able to make it to the campus. "The F-Building was the worst hit. A foot of water just went up and over the sandbags we had previously placed," he said. "The water just went in one side (of the building) and out the other." Water also came through the Student Union and into the cafeteria, he added. Every office in the staff building was flooded, as well as the entire music center, the weight room, the Do"me, the theater, and many more rooms throughout the campus. " The damage will probably be under $10,000. We responded quickly enough and prevented a lot of buildings from being flooded that otherwise would have been." . It will be at least two or three weeks before an accurate estimate of the damage is made, however, because there is too much damage that still has to be assessed, he said.
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Students leaving the north end of campus ran into flooded conditions as the storm hit Palomar last Friday afternoon. Ellis said there is also a concern for the computer rooms because the high humidity may cause some problems. "We don't know how the computers will take the humidity," he said. "The language lab was holding three inches of water." According to Key, the 2.03 inches of rain brought the season total to above normal. The weather station on campus measures the season total at 10.91 inches. According to the National Weather Service, the San Diego area' s normal rainfall for the season is 6.91 inches. Gordon Hepburn, a forecaster with the National Weather
Service office in San Diego, said that El Nino - a warm water phenomenon near the equator that causes stronger weather patterns worldwide- may have been an influence in the strength of recent storms. "What it did do is allow warmer, moister air from Hawaii to come further up from the south, which normally doesn't happen at this time of year," he said. This air mixed with colder Alaskan storms to produce stronger weather systems, including storms which caused severe flooding in Los Angeles and Ventura County resulting in five deaths.
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By Marina Melson News Editor Palomar weathered last week's storm, but Governor Pete Wilson's overestimation of tax revenues could wash away a proposed 10.1 percent increase in community college funding, Palomar's president said at a Telescope news conference Feb.18. Dr. George Boggs, along with other California community college officials, lobbied in Sacramento last week in order to preserve a proposed budget allocation made earlier by Governor Pete Wilson. The increase was considered by Boggs "remarkable considering the state's budget crisis," but is in danger of being cut as a result of a miscalculation by the Governor.
Less revenue than expected was collected in taxes, resulting in state overspending by $2.6 billion. Palomar is not attempting to raise the budget increase but stabilize it. Other state agencies, including both the CSU and UC systems, are attempting to take tlle money from the proposed community college budget to offset their need to cut class sections, lay off faculty, and raise tuition. Boggs said he regrets that the four-year schools must compete with Palomar for the money, but feels that Palomar's efforts were recognized by the Governor. According to Boggs, there are generally three reasons why community colleges, rather than the universities, received the increase. He believes that the lobbying by • see LOBBY, page 3