Winter Weather — Northeast Suffolk, New York
January 10, 2014 · NOAA Storm Events record
Direct deaths
0
Direct injuries
52
Property damage
—
Area
Northeast Suffolk
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.
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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.