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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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  • 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.
  • 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(...)
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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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