{"id":300322,"date":"2025-10-13T16:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300322\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T16:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T16:15:12","slug":"nyc-woman-killed-by-flying-solar-panel-during-noreaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/300322\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC woman killed by flying solar panel during nor&#8217;easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been at least one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/noreaster-coastal-flood-threat-nyc-weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">storm<\/a>-related death in New York City. A 76-year-old woman was struck and killed by a solar panel in Brooklyn, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>It happened just after 10:30 a.m. Sunday at 3100 Ocean Parkway.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Department of Buildings, wind tore a solar panel from the top of a carport structure in an outdoor parking lot. The panel flew about 20 feet through the air before hitting the woman. She was rushed to the hospital, where she later died.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials have taken several precautions in the area since the incident, including temporarily closing one of the nearby Q train entrances, as well as issuing a partial vacate order to the parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place while a wind advisory was in effect throughout New York City due to the nor&#8217;easter that&#8217;s been impacting our area.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>High winds have brought down more than 100 trees citywide during the storm. A large tree in Laurelton, Queens crushed a car on 228th Street between 137th and 138th Avenues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of Monday morning, peak wind gusts during the storm were unofficially calculated at 42 mph in Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wind and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/news\/state-of-emergency-nyc-long-island-westchester-storm-october-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">coastal flooding<\/a> have been the top concerns with this storm. A Coastal Flood Warning remains in effect for New York City, Long Island and and Westchester County through 8 p.m. Monday. \u00a0  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/newyork\/weather\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Click here for the latest storm warnings and watches<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been at least one storm-related death in New York City. A 76-year-old woman was struck and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":300323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,1121,405,403,5226,5225,25745,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-300322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brooklyn","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkcity","14":"tag-noreaster","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115367754314810522","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}