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  2. Knickerbocker Theatre (Washington, D.C.) - Wikipedia

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    The theater's roof collapsed on January 28, 1922, under the weight of snow from a two-day blizzard that was later dubbed the Knickerbocker storm. The theater was showing Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford at the time of the collapse, which killed 98 patrons and injured 133. The disaster was the worst in Washington, D.C., history.

  3. Girl dies in snow fort collapse at church [Video]

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    A 12-year-old girl died when the snow fort she built with a friend outside their Illinois church collapsed on them.

  4. The deadliest building collapses in U.S. history

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    The building’s roof buckled in from the weight of the excess snow, killing 98 and injuring 133. The packed house may have had as many as 1,000 people inside at the time.

  5. Display collapses on kids, families after balloon drop mishap ...

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    Several children were hurt when a display collapsed during a New Year's Eve event for kids in ... Cell phone video of collapse obtained by WBZ-TV. ... blast across US with snow expected for 200 ...

  6. List of Emergency! episodes - Wikipedia

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    When a movie studio cameraman takes a fall, Drs. Early and Brackett have to work backwards to find the real reason he fell. The search leads to a potluck dish of beef stroganoff at the yacht club. Dr. Brackett has to make a risky call before he has all the facts. A young boy playing in an abandoned building is trapped when the building collapses.

  7. List of catastrophic collapses of broadcast masts and towers

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    Storm WDIO-TV Duluth, Minnesota, US March 23, 1991: Guyed steel triangular tower 259 Ice and high wind Freezing rain, accompanied at time with thunder, coated the city of Duluth with as much as six inches of ice. The 850-foot WDIO-TV tower was toppled as winds gusted to 40 mph, buffeting the heavily ice-covered tower.

  8. Destroyed in Seconds - Wikipedia

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    Destroyed in Seconds is an American television series that premiered on Discovery Channel on August 21, 2008. [2]Hosted by Ron Pitts, it features video segments of various things being destroyed fairly quickly (hence, "in seconds") such as planes crashing, explosions, sinkholes, boats crashing, fires, race car incidents, floods, factories, etc.

  9. Avalanches: What causes innocent-looking snow slopes to ... - AOL

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    The behavior of an avalanche depends on the structure of the snowpack, but that's only one ingredient. An avalanche requires all the wrong conditions at the wrong time. The angle of the mountain ...