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Notable Deaths from Hurricane Irene
Posted by:
G. Reaper
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Date: August 30, 2011 12:16AM
Irene helped thin the herd by 40 this weekend. Some who helped her do it:
In Bristol, CT, 46-year-old Shane Seaver died after he and another man went canoeing down a flooded street and the canoe capsized. Seaver's body washed ashore late Sunday in Plainville.
In Hockessin, DE, police found the bodies of two men who had sent a text message to a friend saying they were running through Irene during the height of the storm.
In Volusia County, FL, 55-year-old Frederick Fernandez died Saturday off New Smyrna Beach after he was tossed off his surfboard by massive waves caused by Irene.
In Flagler County, FL, 55-year-old tourist James Palmer of New Jersey died Saturday playing in rough surf.
Celena Sylvestri, 20, of Quinton, NJ, called her boyfriend and then 911 early Sunday seeking help getting out of her flooded car in Pilesgrove. Her body was found eight hours later, still in the vehicle, about 150 feet off the road.
The body of Ronald Dawkins, a 47-year-old postal worker, was found after he abandoned his partially submerged vehicle Sunday and stepped into a hidden drainage creek.
68-year-old Joseph Rocco of East Islip, NY, drowned while windsurfing in Bellport Bay.
A man died after his inflatable boat capsized on the Croton River in New York.
The bodies of 23-year-old Mikita Fox and Danine Swamp were pulled from a river in Altona, NY, after their vehicle plunged into the water while crossing a storm-damaged bridge.
Katherine Morales Cruz, 15, of Manassas Park, Va., died Saturday in a two-car collision at an intersection where Hurricane Irene had knocked out power to the traffic lights.
Ricky Webb, 63, who lived on a farm near Nashville, was killed after a tree limb fell on him when he went outside to feed his horse Saturday.
Tim Avery, 50, was found sitting in a chair facing the television after strong winds toppled a tree onto his Ayden home.
Jose Manuel Farabia Corona, 21, of Dover died in a Pitt County traffic accident after his SUV went off a road and twice slammed into trees Saturday as Irene's began to make landfall.
Deputies recovered the body of Melton Robinson Jr., who had been missing since jumping into the Cape Fear River as storms reached North Carolina.
A 58-year-old Harrisburg, PA, man was killed Sunday when a tree toppled onto his tent.
A man in a camper was crushed by a tree in northeastern Pennsylvania's Luzerne County.
A motorist was killed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when he lost control of his car during the storm in Carbon County, skidded over an embankment and hit a tree.
The body of 64-year-old Patricia O'Neill of East Norriton was discovered Sunday in the Wissahickon Creek, about a half-mile from where her car was found in the flooded waterway.
A body recovered from the Deerfield River is believed to be that of a woman who fell in while watching flooding in Wilmington, VT.
57-year-old William P. Washington of King William County, VA, was killed when a tree fell on him as he was cutting another tree Saturday night.
In Bristol, CT, 46-year-old Shane Seaver died after he and another man went canoeing down a flooded street and the canoe capsized. Seaver's body washed ashore late Sunday in Plainville.
In Hockessin, DE, police found the bodies of two men who had sent a text message to a friend saying they were running through Irene during the height of the storm.
In Volusia County, FL, 55-year-old Frederick Fernandez died Saturday off New Smyrna Beach after he was tossed off his surfboard by massive waves caused by Irene.
In Flagler County, FL, 55-year-old tourist James Palmer of New Jersey died Saturday playing in rough surf.
Celena Sylvestri, 20, of Quinton, NJ, called her boyfriend and then 911 early Sunday seeking help getting out of her flooded car in Pilesgrove. Her body was found eight hours later, still in the vehicle, about 150 feet off the road.
The body of Ronald Dawkins, a 47-year-old postal worker, was found after he abandoned his partially submerged vehicle Sunday and stepped into a hidden drainage creek.
68-year-old Joseph Rocco of East Islip, NY, drowned while windsurfing in Bellport Bay.
A man died after his inflatable boat capsized on the Croton River in New York.
The bodies of 23-year-old Mikita Fox and Danine Swamp were pulled from a river in Altona, NY, after their vehicle plunged into the water while crossing a storm-damaged bridge.
Katherine Morales Cruz, 15, of Manassas Park, Va., died Saturday in a two-car collision at an intersection where Hurricane Irene had knocked out power to the traffic lights.
Ricky Webb, 63, who lived on a farm near Nashville, was killed after a tree limb fell on him when he went outside to feed his horse Saturday.
Tim Avery, 50, was found sitting in a chair facing the television after strong winds toppled a tree onto his Ayden home.
Jose Manuel Farabia Corona, 21, of Dover died in a Pitt County traffic accident after his SUV went off a road and twice slammed into trees Saturday as Irene's began to make landfall.
Deputies recovered the body of Melton Robinson Jr., who had been missing since jumping into the Cape Fear River as storms reached North Carolina.
A 58-year-old Harrisburg, PA, man was killed Sunday when a tree toppled onto his tent.
A man in a camper was crushed by a tree in northeastern Pennsylvania's Luzerne County.
A motorist was killed on the Pennsylvania Turnpike when he lost control of his car during the storm in Carbon County, skidded over an embankment and hit a tree.
The body of 64-year-old Patricia O'Neill of East Norriton was discovered Sunday in the Wissahickon Creek, about a half-mile from where her car was found in the flooded waterway.
A body recovered from the Deerfield River is believed to be that of a woman who fell in while watching flooding in Wilmington, VT.
57-year-old William P. Washington of King William County, VA, was killed when a tree fell on him as he was cutting another tree Saturday night.