Word: stormings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...storm's winds overturned cars and stripped roofs off houses and office buildings and sent chunks of concrete plunging into streets in the capital city of San Juan, where one-third of the U.S. commonwealth's 3.3 million residents live. Fifty airplanes were reported destroyed at the airport in Isla Verde...
There were no immediate reports of casualties in Puerto Rico although one man was electrocuted while trying to remove a television antenna as he prepared for the storm Sunday...
Bands of people, mostly youths, looted storm-damaged shops in San Juan and police patrols were reinforced at the main post office, political party offices and shopping areas...
...boutique on the ground floor of the two-story building housing The Associated Press bureau in San Juan, young looters defied winds hitting 100 m.p.h. at the peak of the storm and carried out armloads of clothing...
Meteorologist Jesse Moore at the NationalHurricane Center said it was too early to tellwhether Hugo would strike the U.S. mainland. Hesaid the storm was expected to be offsouth-eastern Bahamas by tomorrow and "after that,it's anybody's guess...