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High winds hammer Northeast Midwest storm rips across region
A fierce storm swept the Midwest into the Northeast on Friday with winds up to 77 mph. Two killed by falling trees as temperatures plunged from mild to below freezing in western New York. Power outages affected over 100000 homes. schools closed. A tree crushed a car in Rochester, killing its occupant. a DOT worker near Albany died when a tree hit his pickup. Dozens of children escaped injury as a school bus was damaged. A high rise window shattered and debris narrowly missed pedestrians in Syracuse. Two sanitation workers were trapped for over half an hour in a downed power line entanglement. Several planes circled Albany airport briefly as conditions worsened before clearing.
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