The Times

CG police station is no dry refuge from downpour

By ELIZABETH OWEN Staff Writer Chief William Kimbrough of the Coral Gables Police Department was up to his ankles in water Thursday, Aug. 19. When he came to work in the morning, glad to escape the downpour outside, he found his office to be only slightly drier. Water was streaming from the ceiling and corners, the rug was soaked and his desk had to be moved out of the way of a steady drizzle from above. The chief, patient but with dampened spirits, was forced to pace through the corridors of the year-old police station while 13 buckets caught the constant dribble in his office. Chief Kimbrough's office was only one of many on the second floor of the nearly new station that was soaked. The floor of the conference room had to be strategically lined with buckets, and the chief's secretaries, Nancy Powell and Rita DiNicola, kept umbrellas close to their desks. "We've used about all the wastebaskets we can get hold of, and we bought 25 plastic pails this morning," said Capt. Robert Beckerich, who keeps a record of leaks in the new building. "We really need 25 more. We've got leaks on every floor but the first." Captain Beckerich said this week's torrential downpour was not the first that caused the department to break out the buckets. Since the Gables police moved into the new building at 2801 Salzedo in June of last year, the rains have come through the roof on four other occasions. "But this is the worst yet," said Capt. Beckerich. "We called the weather bureau this morning and they said that since 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 18, and 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 19, we've had 4.44 inches of rain." The captain added that when a storm comes from the northwest, the huge front windows of the station leak, causing the front lobby to flood. Although the worst of the storm had diminished to a drizzle by mid-afternoon, department employes had to continue their work amid puddles and the plop, plop, plopping of persistent drips. Coral Gables Police Chief William Kimbrough's secretary, Mrs. Nancy Powell, stands guard over buckets strategically placed to capture rain leaking into year-old police station. Photo by ELIZABETH OWEN

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