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Three killed after high winds pull them out of their apartments in China

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Three killed after high winds pull them out of their apartments in China | CNN

Three people died after typhoon-like winds pulled them out through their apartment windows in southern China, as extreme weather battered the region over the past week.

A total of seven people had died in Jiangxi province since the exceptionally strong winds began on Sunday, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. More than 5,400 houses were damaged and 313,000 people affected, of whom about 1,600 had to be evacuated to safety, it added.

The Chinese meteorological authority issued an orange alert - the highest on its three-tier warning system – on Tuesday, the first since 2013, according to the state-run Global Times.

Four deaths and at least 10 injuries were reported in the provincial capital Nanchang, the hardest-hit city, when severe thunderstorms and heavy rains hit on Sunday, according to CCTV.

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Holy shit... Can you imagine? That's like an actual nightmare where suddenly you're just falling to your death and you're like "welp, this sucks. Gonna die now."
But it's fucking real.
- I flew off my motorcycle once and thought exactly that thought.
  I had only had the bike for a few days at that point and I remember thinking in my head, "welp, this sucks. Gonna die now." Along with, "wow, that small mistake is going to cost me my life."
  Both terrifying thoughts.
  I'm still alive though, my left leg is all messed up, like having the left knee of a 80+ yr old at 36.
  
  What was the mistake you made and what happened?
  
  Do you still ride?
  
  I had the same thing on mine, low-siding off a mountain pass. Was airborne so long, I remember thinking of what to land on to try increase chances of living. Ended up with rotating over to my right ass to take impact away from spine and accept my legs crumpling everything else after that. And it worked!
  Right femur compounded out above the knee, just missed the femoral artery, and had muscle cut out because of the bone doing so much damage, but everything else stayed good. Added to my surgical metal collection and now my right leg is a bit shorter than the other which pisses my hips off, but pretty good considering. I'm sure a cane will be on the cards in a decade or so, which I think is kind of classy.
- Yeah that's some Final Destination type shit
God damn, that's awful. Pretty messed up that the people and companies that lied to us for over 50 years about climate change not only aren't held accountable, but still getting richer and richer by actively making the problems worse. We'll see more and more human beings lost as things continue to get worse (especially in places where the weather is unprecedented and aren't built to withstand that kind of weather).
Did Boeing build the apartments?
- Only a hand full of people died, so no. Boeing building wouldn't even still be standing
- Chinese builders put Boeing to shame.
  https://youtu.be/0OoTL0j3Wvg
  https://youtu.be/s-2DtL-Wjkc
What the hell? I thought that kind of shit only happened in like tornadoes and crap. To be literally pulled out of your apartment, what did you have the windows open or something?
- A typhoon like wind would fall under "and crap" IMO, they are the same thing as a hurricane.
- maybe the windows got ripped off the building.. it said window air conditioners also got knocked down..
man, wait till Putin hears this story. a lot of typhoons will be reported near the houses of russian dissidents.
Well holy hell! That's is really scary and hardcore. I can only imagine the windforce it must have taken...
- If you were going to look out the window to see the crazy storm, and you only opened the window just enough to lean out - which makes sense because of the wind and the rain - and you completely filled the window gap, then I could see it happening. Especially if the windows were near the corners where the flow would speed up and lower the pressure even more, and the wind happened to gust just at that moment, and you were high up where the winds would be stronger. It wouldn't happen a lot - maybe something like three times in a city of millions of people, just to pull a number out of my arse.
  It just takes a moment of bad luck, especially if you weren't holding onto anything.
  
  We currently have winds of over 75 mph in Colorado. Driving was a nightmare, but I can’t imagine this pulling me out of a window of a building. Maybe there was a huge gust?

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