| Northeast Hit By Gale-Force Winds | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1757 |
| Catalog #: | 425699 | |
| Clip Number: | 425699-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 040-016-08 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | New York, New York and Boston | |
| Year Shot: | 1967 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Pedestrians LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, Massachusetts, Boston LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York WEATHER: Wind | |
| Description: | Hurricane-force winds whip the northeast, causing death and damage. Boston, MA A 300 foot crane boom snaps, crashing down on ten parked cars at the MIT campus. Luckily, no one hurt. Pedestrians crossing a busy intersection and their holding on to their hats and hair. MS - A 300-foot boom laying across parked cars. New York, NY. Pedestrians buck the wind and, in most cases, lose. A water main break send a geyser five stories high and the winds spread the flood in a wide area. MS - New York pedestrians here having pretty much the same problems coping with the wind as they did in Boston. Winds are gusting to 82-mph in some areas. MS - One of the streets’ in New York littered with newspaper and anything else that takes flight in the wind. MS - In Manhattan a busted water main causing a flooded street and something that resembles Old Faithful'. MS - City workers in the process of shutting off the water. | |
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