Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Winter Storm Nemo body count.


Nemo was a Climate Crisis storm. Heart attacks, shoveling snow and car accidents. The seniors need to stay home and forget about the shoveling. They can call for help if they need groceries or otherwise.
A look at the deaths related to the massive snowstorm (click here) that blanketed the Northeast in 1 to 3 feet of snow and battered the coastline with high winds and some flooding.

Connecticut

A 73-year-old man fell while cleaning up in Danbury and later died.

49-year-old man in Shelton apparently suffered a "medical event" while shoveling snow.

A man was found dead in a driveway in Bridgeport. His body was discovered under snow.

A woman in her 80s who was clearing snow Friday in Prospect was fatally struck by a hit-and-run driver.

Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said five people died; details were not immediately available on the fifth death.

Maine

A 75-year-old man disoriented by whiteout conditions crashed into a tree in Passadumkeag, then drove his pickup onto the Penobscot River. The submerged truck was found Sunday.

Massachusetts

A boy who took shelter in a snowed-in car in Boston while his father shoveled around it died of carbon monoxide poisoning. Authorities said he was 13 or 14.

A man in Boston's Mattapan neighborhood also died of carbon monoxide poisoning in a running, snowed-in car.

A 60-year-old man died Saturday at a hospital after suffering a heart attack while clearing snow at his Webster home.

New York

A 23-year-old man plowing his driveway with a farm tractor went off the edge of the road and was killed in Columbia County.

A driver lost control in snowy conditions in Poughkeepsie and fatally struck a 74-year-old man.

A 58-year-old man apparently suffered a medical problem while removing snow from his car at a senior citizens' apartment complex in Selden on Long Island.

Ontario, Canada

An 80-year-old woman in Hamilton collapsed while shoveling her driveway.

A 49-year-old Oshawa man was killed as a result of a multi-vehicle collision in Pickering, east of Toronto, on Friday.

A 57-year-old Ottawa man died when his car crashed in blizzard conditions near Prescott, Ontario.