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lustrated by Jack Welch
TAMER
adio and Richard Cray outwit them
ation. He is one of the leading hurricane experts in e country, one of the very few who has himself lived rough one of the severest tropical cyclones ever to rvastate the American coast. And his information, the act scientific reading of weather bureau instruments, rometer and anemometers and wind gauges, comes to m not only from his own equipment but is flashed to m from all sections of the United States and the Cariban Islands.
Up to the point of immediate probability Richard Gray n tell what it will do. He knows exactly where it is :ely to go and knows also the range of possibilities ncerning it. No other human being can know more. Mr. Gray had to wait fifteen years after he had irned all about hurricanes to see a real one. In those ars he had experienced many small ones. But he was u'ting for a real smasher, a 'Dig sized, sure-enough >rricane. A 125-mile-an-hour one came in 1926. Its rtex passed over Miami and Mr. Gray. It was then at he graduated from the ranks of hurricane theorist a practical expert.
The microphone was not installed in the weather bureau ice until 1929 when it was offered to Mr.. Gray by e officials of WQAM, the Miami Broadcasting Com
pany. Today its use is of such value as to make it second in importance to the weather instruments themselves. Back in 1926 people living in outlying sections of the state and the Caribbean depended mostly on meagre newspaper reports or word-of-mouth rumors.
IN September, 1926, at eleven o'clock, in the extraordinary yellow glare which sometimes marks a hurricane, Mr. Gray ordered hurricane warnings. It took four men at the forty-foot weather tower at the docks to raise the hurricane lanterns. By morning that tower was down with a barge washed up on top of it.
All this time the telephone in the weather bureau office was in constant use and Mr. Gray gave out the definite word that the hurricane would be there any minute. Outside the building the roar of the wind was like a dozen locomotives and in the impenetrable black the steely rain blew horizontally. The telephones to Miami Beach and Hollywood up the east coast went out. The telephones to all Miami went out and everything beyond that yelling blackness stopped work.
In fifteen minutes the lights went out. With candles Mr. Gray and his assistants carried on the work of reading and checking and watching (Continued on page 74)
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