B8 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Higher pressure overhead means a little more sun Thursday with reduced chances of showers and thunderstorms. It’ll still be hot, with highs aiming for the mid-90s. But humidity may become more tolerable as the day goes on, with only a slight chance of rain.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Low
Low Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
92/68 90/67
Baltimore 94/71
Washington 94/74
Richmond Charlottesville
94/67 96/75
Norfolk 94/78
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny, hot. High 84-94. Wind west 7-14 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy, showers, thunderstorms early. Low 62-75. Wind light, variable. •Friday, partly sunny, hot, humid, show- er, storm north. High 85- 100. Wind light, variable.
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Virginia Beach 93/78
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny, hot. High 86-94. Wind south-southeast 6-12 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 70-78. Wind southwest 4-8 mph. •Friday, partly sunny, hot, humid, showers at night. High 88-96. Wind south 6- 12 mph. •Saturday, partly sunny, hot. High 91-97.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny, hot. Wind west 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot. Visibility unrestrict- ed. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, partly sunny, hot. Wind west-southwest 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot on the lower Potomac and 1-2 feet on the Chesapeake Bay. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.8 feet today and remaining at 2.8 on Friday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 92/74
Ocean City 93/75
Dover 94/70
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
8 out of 11+, Very High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 47 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 93/73
North
KEY» Temperature
100s°+ 90s° 80s° 70s° 60s° 50s° 40s° 30s° 20s° 10s° 0s° -0s°
-10s°+ Precipitation
Showers Rain T-Storms Flurries Snow Ice
Nation
City Today Albany, NY
Albuquerque 92/68/t Anchorage 62/56/sh
84/63/pc 83/70/t 92/68/t
92/74/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles 68/54/pc
Atlanta 96/75/pc 95/76/pc Austin 96/76/t Baltimore 94/71/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 96/75/pc
Bismarck, ND 76/56/t 68/52/t Boise 93/59/s Boston 86/68/s
91/61/s 87/72/t
Buffalo 82/66/pc 82/74/t Burlington, VT 81/61/t 84/69/t Charleston, SC 96/76/pc 93/77/s Charleston, WV 90/71/t 96/71/pc Charlotte 95/74/pc
95/74/pc
Cheyenne, WY 88/57/pc 89/52/s Chicago 84/78/t Cincinnati 90/74/t Cleveland 84/70/pc
94/76/t
96/74/pc 92/73/t
Dallas 98/79/pc 95/78/pc Denver 94/64/t Des Moines
97/58/s 90/76/t 91/72/t
Detroit 83/72/pc 91/74/t El Paso
96/73/pc 97/75/t
Fairbanks, AK 69/55/t 66/51/c Fargo, ND
78/57/t 76/59/t
Hartford, CT 86/64/s 86/69/t Honolulu 88/74/pc Houston 93/78/t Indianapolis 88/75/t Jackson, MS
87/76/pc 93/78/pc 94/76/t
97/71/pc 96/74/pc
Jacksonville, FL 95/74/pc 92/77/pc Kansas City, MO 96/78/pc 95/76/pc Las Vegas
106/80/pc 106/82/pc 96/76/pc
83/58/s 82/55/s 97/77/pc
Tomorrow Louisville 92/77/t
97/76/pc 97/75/s 78/64/pc 80/64/pc 98/77/s
Memphis 98/78/pc 98/79/s Miami 91/78/t Milwaukee 84/74/t Minneapolis 80/68/t Nashville 94/76/t
92/79/t 91/74/t 84/67/t 99/74/s
New Orleans 94/78/pc 93/76/pc New York City 90/77/s 90/79/t Norfolk 94/78/pc 96/78/pc Oklahoma City 99/76/pc 95/75/s Omaha 94/75/t
90/71/t
Orlando 94/76/pc 89/77/t Philadelphia 93/73/s Phoenix 107/85/t
94/77/t 106/84/t
Pittsburgh 87/69/pc 90/71/t Portland, ME 80/61/pc 83/65/t Portland, OR
77/54/pc 86/61/s
Providence, RI 89/68/s 89/71/t Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 96/75/pc Sacramento 94/57/s St. Louis
99/76/pc 99/76/pc 96/61/s 100/61/s 99/77/pc 96/58/s
95/79/pc 97/79/s
St. Thomas, VI 86/80/r 88/79/s Salt Lake City 94/64/s 96/66/s San Diego
73/65/pc 72/64/pc
San Francisco 74/56/pc 75/56/pc San Juan, PR 83/75/t 87/77/sh Seattle 71/55/pc 78/58/s Spokane, WA 83/56/s 83/57/s Syracuse 84/64/pc
83/73/t
Tampa 95/77/pc 92/80/t Wichita 98/76/pc 96/77/pc
NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
S
KLMNO Today Mostly sunny
94° 74°
Wind west-northwest 6-12 mph
American Forecast
FOR NOON TODAY
Seattle Portlan
SeattlSeattle Portland Sacramento Sacramento San Francisc Los Angele
Fronts Cold
Warm Stationary
Pressure Centers
High Low Key » s-Sunny, pc-Partly Cloudy, c-Cloudy, r-Rain, sh-Showers, t-Thunderstorms, sf-Snow Flurries, sn-Snow, i-Ice. World City Today
Addis Ababa 66/60/r 63/59/r Amsterdam 73/57/sh Athens 92/76/s Auckland 58/54/r Baghdad 115/76/s Bangkok 90/78/t Beijing 94/77/s Berlin 83/69/sh Bogota 67/45/c Brussels 72/52/sh
81/72/t 73/62/r
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 77/61/s
71/58/sh 96/79/s 59/50/r 112/76/s 90/78/sh 96/76/s 75/61/r
65/45/sh 74/48/r
Buenos Aires 55/36/pc 55/41/s Cairo 100/75/s 101/77/s Caracas 83/71/t Copenhagen 77/62/pc
Dakar 83/77/pc 83/73/pc Dublin 63/50/sh Edinburgh 63/43/sh Frankfurt 77/58/r Geneva
82/62/r 77/55/sh
100/79/s 91/74/s 84/63/s 63/38/s 98/62/s
93/83/sh
Ho Chi Minh City 88/78/sh 88/76/r Hong Kong
85/83/r 87/81/t
Islamabad 86/74/r Istanbul 91/74/s Jerusalem 85/64/s Johannesburg 62/37/s Kabul 96/61/s
Kingston, Jam. 86/80/r 88/78/r Kolkata
92/84/t
Lagos 83/73/pc 82/72/pc Lima 68/55/pc 69/55/pc
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 109° Needles, Calif. Low: 28° West Yellowstone, Mont.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service.
66/52/pc 62/50/pc 77/58/pc 65/53/r
Ham., Bermuda 86/77/s 86/77/pc Helsinki 82/63/pc
London 72/52/sh Madrid 86/61/pc Manila 86/78/t Mexico City
Montreal 81/59/t
Tomorrow 82/64/s
73/54/sh 89/61/t 86/78/r
73/57/t 73/59/t 73/61/pc
Moscow 91/67/pc 90/66/pc Mumbai 89/81/r Nairobi 77/54/c New Delhi
89/81/t 80/54/pc
Oslo 73/46/r Ottawa
92/79/t 96/80/pc 61/50/c 79/64/t
80/64/pc
Paris 72/57/pc 76/55/sh Prague 88/66/s
85/64/sh
Rio de Janeiro 85/71/s 81/70/s Riyadh 105/81/s 105/80/s Rome 90/68/s Santiago 52/34/s
91/69/s 50/37/r
San Salvador 86/73/t 88/74/s Sarajevo
83/54/t
Seoul 83/74/sh Shanghai 88/75/s Singapore 86/77/sh Stockholm 77/61/pc Sydney 62/42/s Taipei 89/77/t Tehran 101/81/s Tokyo 92/81/t Toronto 82/64/pc Vienna 93/73/s
89/52/s 86/73/sh 86/75/s 86/77/sh 65/54/r
63/43/sh 89/77/sh 100/79/s 92/80/s 84/70/t
87/67/pc
Warsaw 93/65/pc 92/66/pc Yerevan 104/65/s 101/65/s
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 118° Iranshahr, Iran Low: 8° Balmaceda, Chile
Rise Set
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix Dalla
Houston Mo
HoustoHouston Monterre Monterrey nterrey Dallas Dallas Atlanta Atlanta Atlant New OrleanOrleans New Orleans ew Charleston Charlesto Tamp Miami Miami Tampa Tampa Charleston San Francisco San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Helena
Salt La
Salt Helena
Rapid Ci
Rapid City
City
Lake CiCity
Lake City
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Mpls.-Mpls.- St. Pau
St. Paul Mpls.-
St. Paul ChicagChicago St. Loui St. Louis St. Louis Chicago Columbus Columbus New Yor PhiPhiladelphialadelphia Washingto Washington Washington Ottawa ttawa Bosto New York ew York Boston Boston Friday Partly sunny
97° 78°
Wind southwest 6-12 mph
Saturday Partly sunny
101° 80°
Wind southwest 4-8 mph Sunday Thunderstorm
96° 72°
Wind west-northwest 7-14 mph Monday Mostly sunny
89° 70°
Wind northeast 7-14 mph
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Official weather data Reagan
Temperature High Low
Normal Record high
Record low
Precipitation Past 24 hours Total this month Normal month to date Total this year Normal to date
Relative humidity Max. Min.
93° at 3:24 p.m. 75° at 2:41 a.m. 89°/71°
104° in 1926 56° in 1909
Trace 3.83” 2.47”
17.43” 21.63”
81% at 2:00 a.m. 46% at 4:00 p.m.
Barometric pressure High Low
Temperature trend
40° 60° 80° 100° 120°
PAST TEN DAYS
0" 1" 2" 3" 4" 5" 6"
Normal TODAY TEN-DAY FORECAST
Precipitation almanac, 2009 - 2010 Actual
30.00” 29.93”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
90° at 3:01 p.m. 73° at 2:00 a.m. 88°/65°
101° in 1991 48° in 1966
Trace 3.17” 2.45” 21.17” 23.33”
96% at 2:00 a.m. 53% at 3:00 p.m.
30.00” 29.95”
Normal Record
93° at 3:23 p.m. 76° at 4:00 a.m. 88°/66°
104° in 1930 53° in 1966
0.01” 3.54” 2.62” 22.70” 23.36”
81% at 4:00 a.m. 48% at 4:00 p.m.
29.99” 29.90”
Apparent Temperature:
98°
(Comfort index com- bines temperature and humidity.)
Cooling
degree days An index of fuel con- sumption indicating how many degrees the average tempera- ture rose above 65 for the day. If a day’s average temperature were 75, there would be 10 ‘degree days’ for the date. Wednesday ........ 19 This month....... 374 This season .... 1087 Normal to yesterday ........ 742 Last season ...... 625
J A S O N D J F M A M J
Today’s tides High tides are in bold face Washington Annapolis Ocean City Norfolk
12:03 a.m. 5:45 a.m. 1:06 p.m. 6:20 p.m. 3:20 a.m. 10:28 a.m. 2:59 p.m. 8:44 p.m. 5:14 a.m. 11:16 a.m. 5:56 p.m.
none
Point Lookout 6:36 a.m. 11:03 a.m. 4:52 p.m. Moon phases
July 25 Full
Aug 3 Last Quarter
Aug 9 New
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:00 a.m.
8:28 p.m.
6:10 p.m. 2:39 a.m.
7:55 a.m. 9:40 p.m.
9:41 a.m. 10:34 p.m.
10:41 a.m. 11:01 p.m.
11:19 p.m. 11:26 a.m.
11:01 a.m. 11:20 p.m.
11:10 p.m. 11:12 a.m.
1:22 a.m. 7:18 a.m. 1:15 p.m. 7:55 p.m. none
Aug 16 First Quarter
JAY PAUL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST Southeastern Virginia Training Center in Chesapeake serves adults with mental and physical disabilities. Many must wait for community services southeastern from B1
for themselves. For SEVTC fami- lies, this Training Center is their ‘Choice’ for such care.” Barbara Kimble said she un- derstands the sentiments of par- ents such as Sivertson — even if she doesn’t agree with them. “I don’t blame them,” said Kim- ble, whose 25-year-old son, Mi- chael Ward, is disabled and can- not speak. “If that’s where my son was, if that’s where he had been from an early age, I would be afraid to take him out.” Kimble, who lives in Chesa-
peake, has never visited the train- ing center’s 97-acre campus. Even so, she is adamant that her son never see the inside of Southeast- ern.
Since 2006, Ward has been on a
state waiting list for community services, which would allow him to move into a group home. “I’m sure he’d like to live somewhere other than with his mom,” Kimble said.
But with more than 5,000 on the waiting list, it’s hard to say when a slot will open up for Ward, who bags welcome packs for new Cox Cable subscribers through a vocational program. “If something happens to me
and my husband, where would he go?” Kimble asked. She doesn’t have an answer.
The idea of her child ending up in an institution just doesn’t seem right to her: “I don’t know, I guess in my mind, where is his right to have a life?”
Potent lobbyists
Nationwide, the number of de- velopmentally disabled people in institutions has been falling for decades as the country’s attitudes and laws have evolved. The shift
culminated in a 1999 Supreme Court decision that said “confine- ment in an institution severely di- minishes the everyday life activ- ities of individuals.” Although several states have closed all of their large institu- tions, most still operate some. The number they house has fallen to about 33,000, from 186,743 in 1970 and 84,239 in 1990, accord- ing to the Research and Training Center on Community Living at the University of Minnesota. Vir- ginia’s institutionalized popula- tion has been falling, too, albeit more slowly than in some states. About 1,150 people with develop- mental disabilities are spread among the state’s five training centers, including almost 170 at the Northern Virginia Training Center on Braddock Road. More than 400 are housed at the Cen- tral Virginia Training Center in Lynchburg, the largest of the state’s institutions and the sub- ject of a continuing U.S. Justice Department investigation into care and treatment. In Maryland, by contrast, the number of people in institutions is down to about 150 after the state closed its largest remaining facility, the Rosewood Center in Owings Mills, last year. And the District largely stopped relying on large institutions for the dis- abled after the court ordered the closing of Forest Haven in 1991. When Mark Warner (D) took
office as governor 2002, “it was clear that Virginia was behind,” recalled James Reinhard, who served as the commissioner of mental health under Warner and his successor, Timothy M. Kaine (D). The Warner administration
first proposed expanding com- munity services and rebuilding
Southeastern, which was the training center in the most dis- repair. But Reinhard said that the sentiment shifted and that Warn- er and Kaine decided it should be closed. Beyond the idea that the dis- abled shouldn’t be shut away, the savings were compelling: Caring for a resident in a training center today costs Virginia on average of $181,000 a year, while providing care in the community costs $110,000 to $143,000, according to the state. The Arc of Virginia, an ad-
vocacy group for the disabled, has said the state’s limited resources could serve more people if the money was shifted to community services from institutions. But Southeastern employs nearly 400, among them aides who help residents eat and bathe and therapists who help residents communicate. And the parents of those residents are a potent lob- bying force. Some are in their 60s and 70s, and their children have been at Southeastern for decades. When those parents walk among the brick buildings here, which are called cottages, they see homes, not an institution. When they drive the half-mile from the commercial bustle of South Military Highway to the quiet of Steppingstone Square, they see safety and privacy, not isolation. They did everything they could
to keep Southeastern open, con- tacting their state legislators and testifying at public hearings. In the end, Kaine compro- mised, agreeing to a plan to build a smaller Southeastern that would house 75 people and to spend $8.4million building new community care facilities in this part of the state.
JAY PAUL FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Residents of Southeastern Virginia Training Center sort papers for recycling. Some families see such state-funded facilities as the only choice for loved ones who have know nothing else.
Virginia Training Centers
Southside (SVTC)
Petersburg Opened: 1939
1,218 255
Southwestern (SWVTC)
Hillsville Opened: 1976
486 185
Southeastern (SEVTC)
Chesapeake Opened: 1974
391 133 81 SOURCE: Virginia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services
A ‘galling’ outcome For the training centers and their supporters, the outcome was a testament to the influence they have in Richmond. For fami- lies on the waiting list, it was a re- minder of the obstacles they face in trying to change thinking and shift resources. “It galls me,” said Beth Trout- man of Burke, whose 9-year-old daughter, Elaina, was born with a brain malformation that left her severely disabled. With special education services
in a Fairfax public school and pri- vate therapy at home, Elaina has made progress, her mother said. But aside from 10 hours a week of respite care that her parents re- ceive, the family has had to foot the bill for Elaina’s home therapy,
which they estimate costs them about $25,000 a year. Like hundreds of people in
Northern Virginia and thousands statewide, Elaina is on the wait- ing list for services. “What will happen when I am too old to do things for her?” Troutman asked. “If we don’t have community-based services, she will go into an institution.” All, she said, because a small but vocal group of families isn’t able to face a new reality. “I feel for them. I have a heart for them. I do understand,” Troutman said. “But it seems they are not listen- ing.”
Lisa Lane wishes they would.
Her daughter Sadie was born with a rare chromosomal dis- order and is now 5. She has bright
77 Hillsville 410
Central (CVTC)
Lynchburg Opened: 1911
1,162 167 64 Lynchburg Petersburg 85 95 Staff Resident population
Northern (NVTC)
Fairfax Opened: 1973
509 81 66
Fairfax 95
VIRGINIA 64
Richmond 64
Chesapeake GENE THORP/THE WASHINGTON POST
blue eyes and a mischievous smile, and she loves to help her mom stir the pancake batter. But she cannot talk and she can’t be left alone. “She will probably al- ways need 24-hour supervision,” said Lane, who quit her job as a schoolteacher to care for Sadie. Lane said she understands the decisions Southeastern parents made decades ago. But she can’t make sense of the decisions the same families are making today. “I have no doubt that they thought it was the best choice at the time, because there were no options,” she said as Sadie sipped carrot juice near the kitchen of the family’s Virginia Beach home. “But there are options today. There are community homes.”
cauvinh@washpost.com
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