Powerful wind gust hammers JBER construction site
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A piece of wood was embedded into the windshield of Brian Christie's car when a construction site guard shack crushed his vehicle after being lifted into the air by a swirling wind gust that he estimated at 100 mph on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on Wednesday morning, Sept. 19, 2012. Christie he was walking out to his car at the time of the wind gust and said, "I was 60 seconds away from being dead." BILL ROTH / ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS Buy Photo
