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[STORMREPORTS] AP: Winds Kill Eight / Photos

From: Jesse Ferrell (WeatherMatrix) (jesse{at}weathermatrix.net)
Date: Sat Nov 15 2003 - 15:34:37 EST


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,103050,00.html

>"Utility companies continued working to restore power to hundreds of
>thousands of customers Friday night after heavy wind and rain hit the East
>and Midwest. The powerful gusts were expected to calm by Saturday. At
>least eight people have died in the storms since Wednesday, including
>three motorists hit by falling trees. More than 1.4 million customers lost
>power, and by Friday evening, lights were still out for about 260,000,
>including nearly 79,000 in Pennsylvania. Throughout the region, downed
>trees and power lines littered roads and yards. Schools were closed Friday
>in a few spots. The wind snapped the mast off a 42-foot sailboat off
>Block Island (search), R.I., forcing the Coast Guard (search) to rescue
>the five people aboard. In Oswego, N.Y., a 165-foot cell-phone tower
>outside a fire station fell onto the chief's sport utility vehicle. esides
>the outages in Pennsylvania, power remained out Friday evening for about
>21,000 customers in Michigan, 8,700 in Ohio, 480 in West Virginia, 61,000
>in New York, 3,800 in Vermont, 500 in New Hampshire, 27,000 in Maine,
>7,500 in Massachusetts, 7,000 in Connecticut, 11,000 in New Jersey and
>33,000 in Maryland and Delaware."

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