Winter Weather — Northwest Suffolk, New York
January 10, 2014 · NOAA Storm Events record
Event narrative (NOAA)
Newsday reports that ice-coated roadways caused dozens of motor-vehicle accidents and filled hospital emergency rooms with weather-related injuries. In a two-hour span, Suffolk reported 600 ambulance calls. There were at least 250 vehicle crashes and also 300 calls for help, which exclude car accidents but counts slip and falls and medical emergencies, such as heart attacks. At Stony Brook University Hospital, a spokeswoman said at just about noon that the hospital's emergency department had just received 12 ambulances with patients involved in weather-related accidents.
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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.