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🌳 Extreme weather can cause danger in many forms, including downed tress, a widespread problem during New York City's blizzard this week. Flex, a Hell's Kitchen bar at West 51st Street and Ninth Avenue, learned that lesson firsthand when two employees narrowly missed getting struck while clearing snow off the establishment awning.

"I was on a ladder and my coworker was holding the ladder," manager Giovanni told 1010 WINS. "Next think I know I thought a bunch of snow fell on me, but it was actually branches pushing my head down."

Surveillance video of the incident shows what looks like an avalanche coming down when the tree fell, crushing the front awning of the bar and coating the employees in snow. Giovanni said that he thinks his big jacket and hood helped him out, and he's feeling lucky.

"It's some 'Final Destination' stuff, you know," bartender Daniel Paulsen said. "You see it in movies, you don't think it'll ever happen to you. I mean, just wild to see, I'm just glad they're OK though."

The city said that there were 47 streets blocked because of downed trees during the storm.

🎤 Mack Rosenberg reports

📹 Courtesy of Flex, Mack Rosenberg

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