[STORMREPORTS] High Winds Cause Power Outages, Bizarre Accidents Killing One Friday
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Witness Charles Swaab, 37, says the cab was heading west on 42nd Street
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From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (ferrell{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 15:48:08 EST
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/06/nyregion/06wind.html
power to thousands of customers, downing tree limbs and, in Midland Park,
N.J., toppling a 40-foot maple onto a postal worker, who was pronounced
dead at the scene.
between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m., when the wind speed reached 50 miles per hour
at several places in the region. The gusts reached 53 m.p.h. in Bridgeport,
Conn., 58 m.p.h. in Cape May, N.J., and 49 m.p.h. at Kennedy International
Airport."
http://www.wnbc.com/weather/3895762/detail.html
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/31833.htm
"A cabdriver and three of his passengers got the shock of their lives
yesterday when glass falling from a Times Square office tower crashed into
the cab's rear window. Cops blamed high winds gusting at more than 40 mph
for yesterday morning's shower of glass and debris in front of 4 Times
Square, the Condé Nast building.
toward Seventh Avenue when falling glass and debris smashed the cab. The
Department of Buildings said it responded to a call from 7 Times Square,
but it had yet to be determined from which building the glass fell. Rob
Schubert, a spokesman for the Times Square Tower at 10 Times Square said
glass blown from another building smashed into his structure. Police said
the three passengers and the driver were taken to a hospital for treatment
of cuts and bruises."
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