B8 WEATHER Washington area today The Capital Weather Gang’s forecast
Mostly sunny and humid Wednesday, with highs in the low- to mid-90s. Mostly cloudy Thursday, with highs in the low 90s and thunderstorms possible. The following three days are looking good, with sun and temperatures in the 80s.
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The Region Today Today’s Pollen Index
Mold Trees Weeds Grass Moderate
Low Low
Harrisburg Hagerstown
90/71 91/72
Baltimore 92/74
Washington 90/76
Richmond Charlottesville
92/69 94/74
Norfolk 90/76
Blue Ridge
•Today, mostly sunny, thunderstorm south. High 80-91. Wind southwest 6- 12 mph. •Tonight, partly cloudy. Low 64-74. Wind southwest 6-12 mph. •Thursday, partly sunny, thunderstorm. High 79- 90. Wind southwest 10- 20 mph. •Friday, partly sunny. High 74-84.
Boating Forecast »
Virginia Beach 89/76
Recreational Forecast Atlantic beaches
•Today, mostly sunny. High 86-90. Wind south 10-20 mph. •Tonight, mostly cloudy. Low 74- 78. Wind southwest 8-16 mph. •Thursday, partly sunny, strong afternoon thunderstorm. High 88- 95. Wind southwest 10- 20 mph. •Friday, partly sunny. High 80-88.
Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly
sunny. Wind south 5-10 knots. Waves 1 foot or less. Visibility unre- stricted. Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly sunny. Wind south 10-20 knots. Waves 3 feet on the Chesapeake Bay, 2 feet on the Potomac. River Stages: The river stage at Little Falls will be 2.7 feet today, remaining 2.7 Thursday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
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Annapolis 90/77
Ocean City 87/76
Dover 90/75
Low
Ultra-Violet Index Air Quality Index
8 out of 11+, Very High
Yesterday’s main offender: Today: Moderate
Ozone, 74 The higher the UV Index number, the greater the need for eye and skin protection.
Philadelphia 92/76
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 88/66/t Anchorage 61/55/c Atlanta 94/75/t Austin 91/73/t Baltimore 92/74/s Billings, MT
Birmingham 90/75/t
86/74/s 83/59/t 85/67/t
Tomorrow City Today Little Rock
Los Angeles
61/56/sh 94/76/s 94/73/s 89/66/t
82/61/t 90/61/t 92/76/s
Bismarck, ND 83/60/pc 86/61/t Boise 94/64/t Boston 91/70/s Buffalo 88/67/t
92/65/t 84/66/t 77/59/s
Burlington, VT 88/71/s 80/56/pc Charleston, SC 92/78/t 94/79/t Charleston, WV 90/74/t 86/60/t Charlotte 94/73/t
96/73/t
Cheyenne, WY 85/63/t 90/59/t Chicago 90/67/t Cincinnati 92/70/t Cleveland 92/68/t Dallas 95/77/t Denver 91/64/t Des Moines
Detroit 92/65/t El Paso
91/72/t 90/70/t
Fairbanks, AK 70/50/c 70/50/c Fargo, ND
Hartford, CT 90/73/s 85/62/t Honolulu 89/76/s Houston 92/77/t Indianapolis 92/69/t Jackson, MS
Jacksonville, FL 94/76/pc 96/78/t Kansas City, MO 94/73/t 91/72/t Las Vegas
89/76/s 95/77/t 86/63/t
94/73/t 95/75/s 96/78/pc 103/80/pc 78/57/s 81/64/pc
86/62/s 88/64/t 81/60/s 95/78/s 97/64/pc
86/65/t 83/67/pc 83/60/s
Tomorrow
Louisville 92/75/t Memphis 94/78/t Miami 92/79/s Milwaukee 86/67/t Minneapolis 82/63/pc Nashville 94/76/t
94/77/t 97/77/s 77/62/pc 79/64/pc 92/69/t 96/78/t 91/78/t 80/62/s 81/64/s 94/73/t
New Orleans 95/77/s 94/80/s New York City 92/77/s 86/72/t Norfolk 90/76/s
95/76/t
Oklahoma City 94/74/s 95/75/s Omaha 88/66/pc 85/70/t Orlando 95/77/pc 95/78/t Philadelphia 92/76/s Phoenix 103/84/t Pittsburgh 88/69/t
89/68/t
104/85/pc 84/58/t
Portland, ME 84/69/s 79/61/t Portland, OR
83/58/pc 83/57/pc
Providence, RI 90/73/s 83/67/t Raleigh, NC Reno, NV
Richmond 94/74/s Sacramento 84/54/s St. Louis
96/75/pc 90/70/t
St. Thomas, VI 90/80/sh 90/79/r Salt Lake City 95/70/t 92/69/t San Diego
73/64/pc 70/65/pc
San Francisco 66/54/pc 67/52/pc San Juan, PR 89/78/sh 91/78/sh Seattle 82/57/pc 78/56/pc Spokane, WA 92/60/s 88/61/pc Syracuse 88/70/s
79/57/pc
Tampa 92/79/pc 92/80/t Wichita 96/74/s
95/75/s NOTE: These are the predicted high/low temperatures and forecasts, through 5 p.m. Eastern time.
91/74/t 96/71/t 93/61/pc 93/57/s 97/68/t 87/54/s
S
KLMNO Today Mostly sunny
90° 76°
Wind south-southwest 8-16 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 67/59/t 65/57/r Amsterdam 70/57/pc Athens 88/72/s Auckland 56/45/s Baghdad 118/82/s Bangkok 90/78/t Beijing 97/77/s Berlin 75/57/pc Bogota 65/46/sh Brussels 71/50/r
Tomorrow City Today Lisbon 99/77/s
66/55/r 90/73/s 57/45/pc 115/86/s 91/79/t
102/77/s 70/53/pc 66/46/t 69/50/r
Buenos Aires 57/45/c 59/45/s Cairo 98/70/s Caracas 83/71/t Copenhagen 78/55/s
97/73/s 81/71/pc 73/59/r
Dakar 85/71/pc 84/78/pc Dublin 63/52/pc Edinburgh 66/53/pc Frankfurt 71/54/sh Geneva
76/57/pc 74/54/sh
Ham., Bermuda 84/77/t 84/77/t Helsinki 88/72/t
Islamabad 84/80/r Istanbul 89/72/s Jerusalem 80/61/s Johannesburg 65/39/s
84/66/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 87/76/r 88/78/r Hong Kong
88/82/sh 90/82/t 83/76/r 85/71/s 80/63/pc 67/40/s
Kabul 96/65/pc 98/61/c Kingston, Jam. 88/80/r 89/79/r Kolkata
96/85/sh Lagos 81/72/r
Yesterday’s extremes (Continental U.S. only)
High: 105° Needles, Calif. Low: 34° Bodie State Park, Calif.
SOURCES:
AccuWeather.com; Walter Reed Army Medical Center (pollen data) ; Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments; American Lung Association; National Weather Service. Storm victim was happily committed to family, community
by Michael Alison Chandler
Michelle Humanick was ever- present in her College Park neighborhood. Stopping to chat while walking her golden retriev- er, Rocky BalBubba. Playing with her daughter in the snow. Host- ing political events, countless play dates, family-friendly movie nights and a regular poker party with her husband. So two days after she was killed by a falling tree while running er- rands with her mother-in-law, friends and family were still in disbelief that the energetic new mother, community activist and longtime University of Maryland employee is gone. “I have never personally faced such a totally random yet utterly unfair event,” said John Romano, a close family friend.
Now, relatives, friends and neighbors of Humanick are creat- ing a memorial fund and reach- ing out to support her husband of 16 years, Thomas C. “Clay” Gump, and their two adopted daughters, Sophie and Amelia, both under age 4.
Gump wrote in an e- mail that he has been overwhelmed since the accident. “Michelle was a joy and the love of my life,” he wrote. Humanick, 44, was driving on the Capitol Beltway on Sunday af- ternoon when the storm struck, Romano said, and she took an exit to seek refuge from the high winds and torrential rains. But soon after she turned onto Rhode Island Avenue in Col- lege Park, a falling tree crushed her blue Odyssey minivan, killing her instantly and pinning Sue
Medical patients hampered by storm-related outages
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Adele Becker said she tried calling Pepco last year to put her daughter on its emergency med- ical equipment notification pro- gram list. Pepco says it calls cus- tomers on the list to notify them of upcoming service interrup- tions, including “severe storms such as hurricane warnings.” Becker said Pepco officials told her three times that no such list existed. But Pepco said its emer- gency notification program, which serves 1,314 customers, has existed for more than 15 years. Donna Mann, a process man-
ager in Pepco’s customer care de- partment, said company repre- sentatives called those customers the morning after the storm to in- form them of a “multiday restora- tion” period. Pepco also calls when it hears about major storms days in ad- vance; Sunday’s was unexpected, Mann said.
Customers on the list do not re- ceive special priority for getting their electricity back, however. The call is intended to help them with emergency planning, Mann said. Mann said she did not know
why the Beckers apparently were told there was no emergency no- tification list. “Our call center
reps are all aware of this pro- gram. You can get this informa- tion online,” Mann said. Neither of the women were en- rolled in the program as of Tues- day, said Morehead, the Pepco spokesman. After the lights went out Sun-
day, Becker bought an emergency supply of 175 pounds of liquid oxygen. Her daughter’s liquid oxygen system — unlike her usual oxygen concentrator system — does not require electricity. Becker said she and her daugh- ter did not know how much lon- ger they would have to wait for help: “I think it’s truly disgrace- ful,” she said. “I don’t know if they’re feeling ‘those are lost peo- ple.’ I don’t understand what their feeling is.” The Montgomery County Council also grilled Pepco offi- cials Tuesday about the massive power outages. Council member Roger Berliner (D-Potomac-Beth- esda), an energy lawyer by train- ing, called for state regulators to investigate the reliability of Pep- co’s system. Representatives for the utility said that their system is reliable and that they would co- operate with any investigation. During the hot summer months, the elderly and those with heart or breathing condi- tions are most prone to suffering
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Downed power lines and other hazardous situations are addressed first, as well as hospitals and public safety facilities.
SOURCES: Pepco, Dominion, BGE, NOVEC
in homes without air condition- ing, said Jacqueline Barnett, a physician’s assistant at George Washington University Hospital. She advised affected residents to drink sufficient fluids and spend time in cool places, such as a movie theater or mall. “Try to spend as much time out of your house as possible,” she said. “If you have medication that needs to be refrigerated, get a block of ice and put it in coolers to help keep them cool.”
Thomas H. Graham, regional
Pepco president, said that most power should be restored by Thursday and that customers could call 877-PEPCO-62 (877-737- 2662) for an estimated restora- tion time. The utility’s phone information system had been giving out erro- neous information before it was shut down Monday. It told one caller Monday that her power would be restored Sept. 10. Pepco’s Web site, which also
Lantz, her mother-in-law, in the front seat. Emergency personnel worked
Humanick
for two hours to remove them from the car. Lantz was treated for lacerations on her face and re- leased from the hospital Monday, Romano said. Humanick was one of three people killed in Sunday’s storm. Neighbors and friends described Hu- manick and her hus- band as a loving couple, contagiously friendly and deeply committed to their community.
Their house, with its garage roof of solar panels, was a neighbor- hood hub. Humanick was a mem- ber of the College Park Recrea- tion Board, and also served on the board at her children’s nurs- ery school. “They didn’t do things half-
A chain of repairs
Aſter a storm has passed, power companies use customer calls and computers to analyze reports of outages and predict which equipment needs repairs. Restoring power is based on a system of priorities:
Substation
Power restored
Without power
way,” Romano said. The striking woman with dark
curly hair was a friend or a friendly face to almost everyone in her College Park development. “It was always nice to look out- side the window and see her play- ing with the girls in the snow or walking by with the baby in a stroller and Sophie holding her hand,” said Karin Deck, 26, a re- cent college graduate who lives across the street. Humanick worked part time as
a graphic designer at U-Md., where Gump is a network engi- neer, a university spokesman said. Both are Maryland alumni and dedicated Terrapins fans at football and basketball games. She was an avid swimmer who once swam across the Chesa- peake Bay, friends said. She was also a creative cook who made her own marshmallows and gave them as gifts. An avid gardener,
she filled the back yard with vege- tables and flowers each summer. The couple bought their house, surrounded by parks, a decade ago with their future family in mind, according to a Web site they created when they were searching for a child to adopt. “We first met and instantly fell in love in 1990 and were married four years later,” the Web site said. “Our relationship is built on trust, love, communication and large helpings of laughter.” In an interview, Gump said: “It took a long time for us to become parents. So we were living that and really loving it.”
chandlerm@washpost.com
Memorial contributions may be made to the Sophie and Amelia Gump Educational Fund in memory of Michelle, c/o Juliet Johnson at SunTrust Bank, 2825 Smith Ave., Baltimore, Md. 21209.
Delay in legal marijuana sale for patients
marijuana from B1
rule, Congress had 30 legislative days to review it. The measure became law after Congress fin- ished its business Monday night because the House and Senate declined to intervene, according to a statement from Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D). With Congress staying out of the issue, medical marijuana ad- vocates called the enactment of the law a “historic” victory for their movement.
“By allowing this law to take
effect, Congress is actually tak- ing a positive step towards sen- sible medical marijuana laws that serve to better the best inter- ests of seriously ill patients,” said Mike Meno of the Marijuana Pol- icy Project. Yet medical marijuana re- mains illegal under federal law, and, with the federal Drug En- forcement Administration head- quartered in the Washington re- gion, some advocates remain nervous about a possible federal response. Officials with the DEA were
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Transmission lines and substations that feed thousands of customers are repaired to restore power to the greatest number of people as quickly as possible.
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Efforts then go toward restoring lines that distribute power to smaller groups of customers, such as commercial areas and neighborhoods.
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Finally, homes and businesses without power receive responses. Tese individual problems cannot be addressed until the larger systems have been repaired.
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crashed Monday, was back in business Tuesday, telling users that it was running slowly be- cause of heavy demand.
Addressing criticism about the time it was taking for power to be restored, Graham said, “Within a very short period of time, we were able to mobilize our crews.” He added: “You have to under- stand the sheer number of units we have to restore.”
lees@washpost.com rojasr@washpost.com
not available to comment Tues- day. But Catania said he is en- couraged by an Obama adminis- tration-issued directive from the Department of Veterans Affairs allowing patients at VA hospitals and clinics to have access to med- ical marijuana in the 14 states where it is legal. Last year, U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. also told federal prosecutors to discontinue pursuing cases against medical marijuana pa- tients who abide by local law. The law caps a years-long
struggle to act on a 1998 referen- dum in which 69 percent of Dis- trict residents voted in favor of medical marijuana. Until last year, Congress had blocked the city from enacting the referen- dum.
Bill Piper, director of national
affairs at the Drug Policy Alli- ance, said his organization will continue lobbying city officials to also allow patients to grow their own marijuana. An advisory committee is studying the idea, but Catania said he worries that home culti- vation will lead to abuse and “criminal activity.”
craigt@washpost.com
99/83/pc 82/72/sh
Lima 69/58/pc 70/57/pc
64/55/pc 67/55/pc 69/54/t
London 72/55/pc Madrid 97/69/s Manila 87/78/r Mexico City
Montreal 87/69/t
Tomorrow 97/77/s
73/57/pc 99/66/s 86/78/r
70/55/t 72/49/t 79/59/pc
Moscow 95/66/pc 99/64/pc Mumbai 84/78/r Nairobi 76/53/r New Delhi
86/79/sh 79/54/c
87/79/r 92/78/r
Oslo 68/57/pc 73/57/r Ottawa
86/66/t 77/54/s
Paris 79/54/pc 73/54/c Prague 77/57/r
82/66/t 72/54/pc
Rio de Janeiro 76/68/c 79/68/pc Riyadh 101/79/pc 103/79/s Rome 82/63/s Santiago 54/33/s
47/34/pc
San Salvador 87/74/t 87/74/t Sarajevo
74/49/t
Seoul 90/76/r Shanghai 90/77/s Singapore 88/79/r Stockholm 72/66/sh
80/53/t
90/74/pc 90/79/sh 87/79/t 79/64/t
Sydney 64/49/sh 68/50/r Taipei 91/79/r Tehran 92/73/s Tokyo 88/72/s Toronto 86/66/t Vienna 78/62/c Warsaw 66/57/r
The world (excluding Antarctica)
High: 117° In Salah, Algeria Low: 14° Summit Station, Greenland
91/79/pc 92/73/s 81/72/r 77/59/s 78/63/t
69/55/sh Yerevan 102/60/s 103/63/s
Rise Set
8:23 p.m.
9:30 p.m. 8:32 a.m.
Los Angeles Los Angeles Phoenix Phoenix San Francisco San Francisco Portland Calga Calgary Calgary Winnipeg Winnipeg Winnipe Helena
Salt City
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St. Louis Chi
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Houston Mo
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s.- Columbus Columbus Ottaw Ottawa ttawa Bosto Boston Boston New Yor Washingto New York ew York Philadelphia Washington Washington Philadelphia Thursday Thunderstorms
92° 70°
Wind northwest 8-16 mph Friday Partly sunny
86° 67°
Wind north-northwest 8-16 mph
Saturday Mostly sunny
86° 71°
Wind east-southeast 6-12 mph Sunday Mostly cloudy
88° 72°
Wind south 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.
87° at 1:00 p.m. 72° at 4:00 a.m. 89°/71°
100° in 1940 55° in 1920
None 4.47” 3.19” 18.07” 22.35”
73% at 4:00 a.m. 42% at 2:00 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
30.13” 30.07”
Actual and f or ecast
THROUGH 5 P.M. YESTERDAY BWI
Dulles
87° at 2:57 p.m. 62° at 4:24 a.m. 88°/65°
98° in 1993 52° in 1977
None 3.63” 3.11” 21.63” 23.99”
90% at 6:00 a.m. 47% at 1:00 p.m.
30.14” 30.07”
Normal Record
87° at 1:52 p.m. 66° at 4:39 a.m. 87°/66°
101° in 1940 52° in 1962
None 3.95” 3.37” 23.11” 24.11”
84% at 6:00 a.m. 42% at 10:00 a.m.
30.13” 30.06”
Apparent Temperature:
89°
(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. Tuesday ............. 15 This month....... 500 This season .... 1213 Normal to yesterday ........ 836 Last season ...... 713
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
4:51 a.m. 10:17 a.m. 5:19 p.m. 10:43 p.m. 12:45 a.m. 7:22 a.m. 1:58 p.m. 7:49 p.m. 3:42 a.m. 9:39 a.m. 3:42 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 5:32 a.m. 11:38 a.m. 5:44 p.m. 11:56 p.m.
Point Lookout 3:26 a.m. 10:06 a.m. 3:53 p.m. 9:36 p.m. Moon phases
Aug 3 Last Quarter
Aug 9 New
Aug 16 First Quarter
Solar system
Sun Moon Mercury Venus Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus 6:05 a.m.
8:16 a.m. 9:35 p.m.
9:50 a.m. 10:24 p.m.
10:35 a.m. 10:46 p.m.
10:56 p.m. 11:02 a.m.
10:40 a.m. 10:57 p.m.
10:46 p.m. 10:48 a.m.
Aug 24 Full
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