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Picking up after the storm that ripped through the Metro area last night, with winds gusting up to 60 m
Picking up after the storm that ripped through the Metro area last night, with winds gusting up to 60 m

Picking up after the storm that ripped through the Metro area last night, with winds gusting up to 60 m

Date8/30/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Picking up after the storm that ripped through the Metro area last night; with winds gusting up to 60 m.p.h.; firemen beside a heavy door and a smashed window frame probe through the debris left when rear wall of the Perkins Engines Ltd.; in Skyway Industrial Park on Meridian Rd.; was torn away. Winds blew down walls of nearby buildings; ripped roofs of dozens of homes; disrupted power.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0015508F
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