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Bad choice of parking spot. High winds caused this tree to come crashing down yesterday, tiking a hydro wire with it and crushing this car parked on H(...)
Bad choice of parking spot. High winds caused this tree to come crashing down yesterday, tiking a hydro wire with it and crushing this car parked on H(...)

Bad choice of parking spot. High winds caused this tree to come crashing down yesterday, tiking a hydro wire with it and crushing this car parked on H(...)

Date3/31/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Bad choice of parking spot. High winds caused this tree to come crashing down yesterday; tiking a hydro wire with it and crushing this car parked on Heath St. The winds; freezing rain and below-season temperatures characterized a last-day-of-March storm that left many houses without electrical power or cable TV service and slowed streetcars and traffic. Two men were killed in a car crash on Highway 27.
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Bobbi Cochar examines damage caused by a maple tree that toppled when gale force winds whipped through Metro yesterday
Bobbi Cochar examines damage caused by a maple tree that toppled when gale force winds whipped through Metro yesterday
5/10/1990
Cars parked along lakeshore area in west end were caked with up to 3 inches of frozen spray whipped up by hurricane-force winds yesterday. Ray Russell(...)
Cars parked along lakeshore area in west end were caked with up to 3 inches of frozen spray whipped up by hurricane-force winds yesterday. Ray Russell(...)
1/27/1978
Storm Aftermath. Workmen survey the damage caused by high winds last Saturday when a block and brick wall of a unit under construction on Matheson Blv(...)
Storm Aftermath. Workmen survey the damage caused by high winds last Saturday when a block and brick wall of a unit under construction on Matheson Blv(...)
10/15/1989
Storm tossed: Peel Constable Evan Smith, top, directs a damaged car yesterday amid high winds that also tore at Toronto pedestrians
Storm tossed: Peel Constable Evan Smith, top, directs a damaged car yesterday amid high winds that also tore at Toronto pedestrians
1/14/1992
Storm tossed: Peel Constable Evan Smith, top, directs a damaged car yesterday amid high winds that also tore at Toronto pedestrians
Storm tossed: Peel Constable Evan Smith, top, directs a damaged car yesterday amid high winds that also tore at Toronto pedestrians
1/14/1992
Savage winds making big waves... Gale force winds yesterday brought another round of high-water warnings for shoreline residents along Lakes Erie, Ont(...)
Savage winds making big waves... Gale force winds yesterday brought another round of high-water warnings for shoreline residents along Lakes Erie, Ont(...)
12/4/1986
Walk on the wild side: High winds and snow made for treacherous conditions on th sidewalks as well as the road as this man put his shoulder down to challenge downtown streets
Walk on the wild side: High winds and snow made for treacherous conditions on th sidewalks as well as the road as this man put his shoulder down to challenge downtown streets
1/19/1987
Heaviest October snowfall on record downed tree limbs and cut off hydro to homes and traffic lights but caused only a few accidents. No one was hurt w(...)
Heaviest October snowfall on record downed tree limbs and cut off hydro to homes and traffic lights but caused only a few accidents. No one was hurt w(...)
10/22/1969
Toppled by winds, a tree on Cowan Ave
Toppled by winds, a tree on Cowan Ave
8/30/1970
Winds toppled this huge tree, tearing its massive roots from the ground
Winds toppled this huge tree, tearing its massive roots from the ground
7/16/1973
Claude Bimm of Rexdale checks one of three planes flipped by high winds at King City airport
Claude Bimm of Rexdale checks one of three planes flipped by high winds at King City airport
4/6/1979
Helping hand: Passersby give unidentified driver a push on one of Metro's slippery side streets last night after high winds and snow turned roads into skating rinks
Helping hand: Passersby give unidentified driver a push on one of Metro's slippery side streets last night after high winds and snow turned roads into skating rinks
12/2/1980